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18 reasons why the Philippines suck

The following are 18 compelling reasons why the Philippines suck. I got this from a blog reply. Credit to Section404 who posted the list here.

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(1) For P50, the Filipino’s vote can be bought.
(2) For P500, the Filipino can have someone assassinated; just look at all those murderers loose on motorbikes.
(3) Tsimays literally go after White Americans, have themselves impregnated, go to the States, and speak in broken English, thinking that they look like Whites themselves.
(4) Filipinos always ask to be “treated” to lunch or dinner.
(5) Wherever there is free food, you will find a large congregation of Filipinos, especially those from the slum areas.
(6) The Filipino wants to borrow money; if someone refuses, they immediately badmouth the person.
(7) Try collecting debt from someone who owes you, and you will end up either being the “vile” person, or you’ll get yourself killed.
(8) Look at all the Filipino shows; their jokes are corny.
(9) Is it a wonder if Filipinos born abroad hides the fact that they come from a Filipino lineage ? Lots of them in the US.
(10) Filipinos are copycats; cannot get good ideas on their own. Lots of your TV shows are actually copied from either Asian or American shows.
(11) Filipinos are fond of asking for alms; go to any church and you’ll see lots of beggars lining up on the streets.
(12) Filipinos are always embroiled in controversy; remember the Nursing Licensure exams, or whatever that was where the answer was leaked ? Shame on you !
(13) Look at Filipino politics! Dynasties abound !
(14) Whenever a male foreigner marries a Filipino woman / maid, can you see her entire FAMILY tagging along, being fed by the foreigner ? Poor chap ! From the parents to the aunts to the 3rd or 4th degree cousins … they all live under one roof … poor foreigner.
(15) Tagalogs hate the Visayans and those from the south, while the Visayans call those from Manila Imperialists.
(16) Look at your senators and congressmen! TV personality Loren Legarda, action star Lito Lapid, and a host of other people who basically don’t have half the brains to do their jobs ? heh !
(17) Apo Hiking Society has a song “American Junk.” They basically castigated the Americans. Yet they applied for visas to hold a concert in Las Vegas ? Goodness, how thick could you get !
(18) Your leftist groups, like Gabriela, always takes to the streets chanting anti-American slogans! Yet for all you know, the aid coming from America is in millions of dollars helping your economy stand on it’s feet. Ingrates!

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It’s unfortunate that many of the 18 points above have at least an element of truth at their cores. The non Filipino who wrote that is quite cynical, but it’s hard to refute his main points.

614 Responses

Great!!! are you happy now. I hope you can sleep for all the bad things you just have said about Filipinos. I’m glad there are a lot of Filipinos out there that don’t fit your description. Too bad you can’t think of anything better. This is not a perfect world. Where do you think you’re coming from. I your world perfect?

reality hurts. i am a Filipino and I do see lots of those mentioned above.:( we shouldn’t get mad just because we are being confronted with what’s real. Let’s open all our eyes and look around….(it is indeed true).

Sadly these are truths in many Filipinos and there are even worst that are unwritten. Let’s look at for example how they treat Charice for her success. This poor child has not done wrong to anyone but brought the country into greater positve limelight globally. She has remained humble, dignified, not bitter and continue to inspire depite her persecution in her own country – the lucky fools. She has done more community service/support in her country in the short span of time compared to many monied and influencial people in the Phils. Why castigate her for having American accent or speaking in English or singing in English? Who in the Phils doesn’t speak English – from primary school to politicians, in the entertainment etc, basically everywhere and everyone. Does speaking Englsih or any other language make you less Filipino. What a shame, your crab mentality and viciousness attacking someone who earned their success by mere hardwork, perseverance and true talent. I am from downunder and have roots in the Phils. and it is fair to say that it brings shame to us abroad. If the likes of Oprah, David Foster, Celine Dion and many people in the US and globally recognise, love and appreciate Charice, how can you Filipinos not when you have the most to benefit in many ways?

I do hope that even just a moment of silence you make a reflection and learn something good out of this.

youre right thats why i hate my own country sometimes.i want to change philippines into a better place but how can i do that alone.you can see garbages around.there are some bad smelling areas ewww..filipinos steal things from their friends thats a reason enough to be aware.people wants themselves clean but they do not care for their sorroundings.NAIA has said as one of the worst airport on asia and i do agree with that.stop being hurt if foreigners used to hate phil. why not? those statements are true. instead let us improve our country.stop being pasosyal and plastic people we all should learn how to love others the way we love ourselves.there no wrong doing that.

How sure are you only Filipinos do that? Have you been to Thailand? How about Amsterdam? Are you American? If you are, a lot of what you’ve posted are happening right under your nose, buddy. Go to outskirts of L.A., ‘been there and I have seen lots of black & brown Americans do them, and there were whites too, and oh they are way wicked, man. Americans are much like Filipinos too. We learned a lot from Americans, that’s why. And Americans are teaching wicked things too to other parts of the world. Now, you know.

To the one who made the list: If you’re not a filipino, then kudos to you. You know more about the nation that many filipinos. If you’re a filipino, I’m not surprised if you get to bad mouth your own country. Self-deprecation and lack of pride in our nation are some of our vices.
Nevertheless, the list is true. So let us work on our weaknesses and capitalize on our strengths.
Godspeed!

Quite frankly I agree with this guy. I’ve been living here for 6 months now and I’m a Filipino from the States. A lot of these things are sadly true friend. Pride in this nation is something closer to a false sense of nationalism. What the Philippines needs right now is humility. We need to realize that there are a lot of things wrong with the country and that something needs to be done. Before we can be proud of our nation, we need to make it into something we can be proud of. As of right now we have too many weaknesses like our leaders for example, poor education leads us to make weak choices and education is one MAJOR thing we fail to focus on. The country’s focus doesn’t seem to be centralized around itself but rather than to the other countries around us. Right now I say I am filipino, but I am NOT proud to say it.

I totally agree with you. Most of the Filipinos I know are like that. The author didn’t say all Filipinos are that bad. All nationalities have their own weaknesses and we all have to accept them. If we don’t, then we’d probably be unable to find solutions to change for the better. I think that the best thing to do is to keep all those observations in mind and try not to do them again.

I agree with you and I’m proud to say I am a Filipino because I achieved the level that I lost most of the above mentioned vices, if you are a Filipino and do not achieve then you will be affected with the above, strive more and soon you will find that being a Filipino and accepting your roots is something to be proud of…at least I’m glad that the one who wrote the above compares Filipinos-considered in third world, with those of the first…with hopes who cares, thanks to your reminders…

that is such a nice idea if all of us will cooperate..our country or even the world is starting to fall down..morally, socially and Spiritually… you can still be proud to say you’re a filipino if you know in your heart that you’re not the kind of filipino being described in the article..

True. Now that we know some of the things that make the Philippines “suck” or bad, then we need to act upon then on these and fix them. The first step for improvement in any nation is acknowledging what is incorrect. If we keep on denying on the wrong points then will never improve on them because we just accept them as is or “part of our culture na eh” kind of thinking. While number 5 I can’t really agree with since the people mentioned are poor and coming from the slum area, the rest of the list are very true and need to be fixed. Number 16 is glaringly true. Who doesn’t want leaders with heart and sincerity but if we are going to always get the wrong people who are really clueless and do nothing substantial really in politics then let other people who knows more what to do be in the office. In general, Filipinos are into “face value/name familiarity” kind of election instead of “analytical brain selection” type of voting.

Same here. Most of the new generations are a bunch of crabs! That’s also the reason why I left the country cause I don’t see good future for me and my family. For sure, when I get back to Philippines, airport pa lang holdap nako sa mga hayop na customs kesyo may tax ang mga dala kong pasalubong. tsk! tsk! tsk!

WELL THIS BLOGGER JUST LEFT OUT A COUPLE OF GREAT POINTS.
#19. ALL THE RATS AND ROACH’S IN THESE SO CALLED CLEAN HOUSES.
#20. THE STRAY DOG HAPPEN TO BE THE FAMILY PET.
#21. IF YOU DO TRY TO HELP A PINOY, U BETTER BE WILLING TO HELP HIM AGAIN.
#22. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, EXPECT TO BE CHEATED…IN EVERYTHING YOU DO AND EVER WHERE YOU GO. EXPECT IT.
THIS IS WHY THEY GET THE TRASH OF THE WORLD, MEN THT WANTA HAVE BUTT SEX WITH UNDERAGE GIRLS. WHY NOT THE PINOY DOES IT.

WE ARE ALL PROUD FIL-AM’s
HALF FILIPINO HALF-AMAZING!!!!!, SO WHAT?
YOU WANNA WASTE YOUR TIME AGAIN TRYING TO BRING OUR RACE DOWN? YOU MADE US FEEL, WE HAVE TOWERING HEIGHT… LOL
SO ARE YOU GOING TO THINK OF #23 TO #50? HAHAHAHA
GO AHEAD, AND MAKE US FEEL WE BELONG TO THE UPPER UPPER CLASS, AND LOWER LOWER CLASS TRYING TO BRING US DOWN! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,

I said you sound like a loser! The sad thing is there are too many useless, pieces of shits like you in the Philippines. The Koreans, the Chinese, the Japanese, and even the Indians and the Tibetans and the Bhutanese will never tolerate losers like you and never will they give entry to a crack shit like you. And yes, that way the Philippines is pathetic.

hehehe do you even know what upper class is? philippines is already in the most fucked up lower fucking classs and actually i dont think they have a class so just fuck off and go to the nearest mcdonalds restaurant and ask people for 1 peso .. and try not to steal .. when someone tells u something and u didnt understand just dont fucking open your motherfucking dirty monkey mouth … and when u r takin picture all the fuckin time just dont look like a fuckin pussy … and plz stop suckin dicks u dick head fucker …. fuck you and your fuckin philippino face .. u look like monkies .. i was there for a month and i fucked more than 20 girls btw tell girls to shave their pussies cuz it smells like shit .. and one more question . why do girls have mustache?

“#21. IF YOU DO TRY TO HELP A PINOY, U BETTER BE WILLING TO HELP HIM AGAIN.”

Indeed. I have classmates who usually approach me if they need help. It happens a lot. They would like to take me as their group mates in projects, assignment, and even computer laboratory exercises. Those dim-witted do not try to help themselves. Yeah, most Filipinos suck. =)

it happens anywhere my dear…i went to school in a foreign country here in central Europe and almost everyone ask me for favor and be with there group,and they are not filipinos,I am..but i don’t see anyhting wrong with that Iam even flattered.It is the thinking that makes the man..in your case i can see that u are soo narrow minded..and like a little boy crying for nothing..

I hate that i am half filipino. I visited the country of my mothers origin and was seriously ill in the 10 days “vacation” time i had. Going to the hospital there was a huge joke. I was afraid of catching something and being even worse before i left for the states. Ugh. My own mother tried to screw my sister and i over when we sold our land there. She also forgot to mention to us as her biological children that she re-married and has an adoptive daughter. Everyone that i have ever known to be filipino is perfectly described in this blog. My own American father actually anulled the marriage with my mother and assumed full custody of my sister and myself when we were very young. I have to say that that was the best thing my late father did for my whole existence. I am ever so proud to be an American.

– first of all learn how to show respect to your mother she is the one who gives your life. Maybe respect were not thought to you in whichever country you were from.
-second we never proud of half filipinos (na hindi marunong tumingin sa pinanggalingan nila) who dont know where their origin.

-third you never know Filipinos very well, so dont ever judge on whatever you see or heard as you said you went here for only 10 days.
You only know Filipino as ethnicity, but definitely you don’t know our stories think before you judge.

I am proud to be a Filipino despite all that 18 negativities written:

1. We choose to take care of our grandparents instead of putting them in home for the aged while other countries they just throw their grandparents in a home for the aged and who take care of them Filipino caregiver who works for them. As we shows care even people from different culture. Some Filipino work outside our country some of them is in area of war, they choose to stay even they sacrifice their own life they choose not to leave the person they are taking care of even our country is repatriating them back to our country. One thing only Filipino people show real love for every human being who need care that they don’t get in their own family.

2. We always try to show comfort and hospitality in our guest. It is in our culture to give way for our guest we sacrifice our own good just to make them more comfortable.

3. We support every Filipino who represents our country, everywhere you can see Filipino supporter for every representative sent. We celebrate for every win they get and happy for them because we are united with one goal that is to give honour to our country. We love our country more than anything else and true Filipino and proud Filipino will die for our country.

4. We only have so little chances and few opportunities but we always strive hard for excellence. We are truly hardworking and willing to sacrifice for the good of our family. Yes some of as commits wrong decision sometimes, but come to think first before judging us most just went into that decision because we love our family and we are willing to do everything for our family not for ourselves. We are not the kind of selfish people from other countries that doesn’t care for other people as long as they are good in their own self who try to find satisfaction in the internet for some pleasure.

5. Even we have so few resources survival is not a problem as we are gumptions. Yes we have so many people who are poor, but this people you called poor are people who never did choose the kind of life they have. The one you called poor people is the one willing to help anyone who is in need. They are people who can manage to live their life even without those material things you enjoyed which are only pleasurable. We have what we call contentment in life, not ask for anything that we cannot afford to have instead try to live life in a better way despite all the challenges in life that were not given to us.

6. Filipino are truly intelligent people, if all of us have chances to be in school surely a lot of geniuses are from the Philippines given the chances compare to other countries Filipino student have more interest to learn. Some other countries even a respect for their teacher is sometimes gone but here we respect our teacher/professor same respect we show to our parents.

7. We are not close minded and for sure not idiot people to understand the situation first before judging other people. Think about the reasons behind before you judge look for the reasons why before saying anything about us. Have some time to reflect why do this people live like this and why do they act like that and think you are lucky than they/we are.

You really think you are perfect, and then do the verdict over and over again until you find out if you are living in a world that is perfect for you. Maybe you have a better life with your family and friends and nothing to worry about what you going to eat and your family for the next day, if you are you’re lucky in life than the less fortunate people you are judging. But for sure they are better person than you are reason they try to live their life in a way that they cannot offended other people moral. This people you are judging has nothing to do with you but they strive hard for their family.

Can you not read? I’m pretty sure she knows Filipinos more than just an ethnicity, in fact she knows one as her MOTHER, and a failed one in this case. Sure there are good things in the Philippines, and I’ve known some very respectable Filipinos too. But c’mon lets face it, every country has her bad side too. And I don’t think idealizing ones country as if she’s not flawed is a sensible idea. In fact I give kudos to whoever write this, especially being a Filipino himself to be mature enough to admit ones’ country’s own mistakes. I myself have lived in Manila for years, and in my honest opinion, the city is still far from perfect. However, throughout my stay, I’ve met so many good, hard working Filipino/as with exemplary characters, upon whom I shall raise my hat for respect. But it wasnt always rainbows and butterflies over there, more like nasty traffic and jeepneys (which I thought was pretty cool until one decided to ding the company’s car and just drove away like nothing happened).

In fact, I think it’s foolish to be offended by a joke. If you guys are proud of your country, and love her as she is, along with all things, good or bad, that comes with her, then you shouldn’t care
much about what others think of her, but rather take actions to make her a better place to live, make her a country that sets off a positive example. Because, don’t you think that if these stereotypes are out there, then there might be a slight possibility that they’re true?

First. Respect a mother that rips off her own children? A filipino trait…po is always right, even when they are fucking bloodsucking assholes!
Second: you are a typical racists thin skinned “proud” pinay. “we never proud of half filipinos who don’t know where their origin”. what you mean is…we cling to any and all people who have any filipino blood if they achieve even a momentary fame. We ignore the fact that they may have little or no connection with PH and they achieved what they did by hard work or by growing in another country. Instead we believe that they achieved that only because they have some filipino blood. If you have filipino blood but don’t think like us, you are an ignorant foreigner.

The guy is right. Beggers,thieves,liars,drug addicts,pushers,the corrupt politicians elected by the Filipino people or some actor dumb as a doorknob.
Things like this is what the rest of the world see. So many stupid things go on here. Filipino people are really pathetic. Like a nation full of little children crying for their mommy. The lack intelligence is unbelievable. Nothing is done the correct way here. If something happens to get done right it takes 4 or 5 tries to get right.

its so sad that you look down on us Filipinos.. i am not surprised.. i am just sad that most of the things mentioned here are true but aren’t all countries has their own skeleton? its either you don’t see yours or you avoid seeing them because you are too busy looking for negative things about us..

yes…most countries do have skeletons in the closet…and none started out as civilised and progressive…what the point is, is what are the people of any particular country doing to improve themselves and their country…being able to see the faults of yourslf and your culture is what leads a country and its people on…slowly but surely changing what is acceptable, what is expected of people..and what is most notable about filipino is their inability to accept criticism, their defensive yet narcisistic superiority complex. True there is nothing or nobody in the philippines that you can’t find anywhere else….but the problem for you guys is the degree or commoness of the problems and behaviours…and the lack of willingness to change

As life of some Filipino is not as fortunate as you are with so much to tell about us and a lot of discrimination, very judgemental person has no other things to do but to see what’s wrong with us come to think of yourself if you’re really that perfect person.

1. We choose to take care of our grandparents instead of putting them in home for the aged while other countries they just throw their grandparents in a home for the aged and who take care of them Filipino caregiver who works for them. As we shows care even people from different culture. Some Filipino work outside our country some of them is in area of war, they choose to stay even they sacrifice their own life they choose not to leave the person they are taking care of even our country is repatriating them back to our country. One thing only Filipino people show real love for every human being who need care that they don’t get in their own family.

2. We always try to show comfort and hospitality in our guest. It is in our culture to give way for our guest we sacrifice our own good just to make them more comfortable.

3. We support every Filipino who represents our country, everywhere you can see Filipino supporter for every representative sent. We celebrate for every win they get and happy for them because we are united with one goal that is to give honour to our country. We love our country more than anything else and true Filipino and proud Filipino will die for our country.

4. We only have so little chances and few opportunities but we always strive hard for excellence. We are truly hardworking and willing to sacrifice for the good of our family. Yes some of as commits wrong decision sometimes, but come to think first before judging us most just went into that decision because we love our family and we are willing to do everything for our family not for ourselves. We are not the kind of selfish people from other countries that doesn’t care for other people as long as they are good in their own self who try to find satisfaction in the internet for some pleasure.

5. Even we have so few resources survival is not a problem as we are gumptions. Yes we have so many people who are poor, but this people you called poor are people who never did choose the kind of life they have. The one you called poor people is the one willing to help anyone who is in need. They are people who can manage to live their life even without those material things you enjoyed which are only pleasurable. We have what we call contentment in life, not ask for anything that we cannot afford to have instead try to live life in a better way despite all the challenges in life.

6. Filipino are truly intelligent people, if all of us have chances to be in school surely a lot of geniuses are from the Philippines given the chances compare to other countries Filipino student have more interest to learn. Some other countries even a respect for their teacher is sometimes gone but here we respect our teacher/professor same respect we show to our parents.

7. We are not close minded and for sure not idiot people to understand the situation first before judging other people. Think about the reasons behind before you judge look for the reasons why before saying anything about us. Have some time to reflect why do this people live like this and why do they act like that and think you are lucky than they/we are.

You really think you are perfect, and then do the verdict over and over again until you find out if you are living in a world that is perfect for you. Maybe you have a better life with your family and friends and nothing to worry about what you going to eat and your family for the next day, if you are you’re lucky in life than the less fortunate people you are judging. But for sure they are better person than you are reason they try to live their life in a way that they cannot offended other people moral. This people you are judging has nothing to do with you but they strive hard for their family.

1. OFW work overseas because they are poor and can’t get work in PH….not because they love and care about other humans. it’s just what you tell yourself to deny the truth.

2. “show comfort and hospitality to our guest”. Do you mean like “where is my pasalubong?” or “hey joe give me money” or …..

3. True, you do celebrate every win. In fact filipino are not only poor losers they are bad winners…on the rare occassion they do win. The usual “pinoy pride” ramps up and again filipino believe they are the best in the world…when history and statistics prove otherwise.

4. “we always strive hard for excellence” Your best university ranks about 320 in the world. “We are truly hardworking and willing to sacrifice for our family”. Unfortunately true…of a small part of the population….while too many sit and expect you to be “hardworking and sacrifice”.

5. “we have gumption….contentment in life” again true. we need somewhere to live….lets go fill up the riverbank with slums….lets be happy…drink red horse and sing…..

6. “filipino are truly intelligent people” WRONG. Average IQ in PH is 86. ” a lot of geniuses” Genius level IQ is 135 and above. Perhaps many haven’t had the opportunity. But genius will find its way. Where are these geniuses who are world leaders in science, maths, art? As for all those interested to learn, there would seem to as many who waste the opportunity given them. No different to other countries you presume to know.

7. “we are not close minded .. idiot people…before judging other people” I could fill a book with a response to this citing hundreds of examples of filipino collectively judging others before knowing the facts. Follow any newspaper comment thread in PH dailies like INQUIRER and you will see how your intelligent, genius, caring and hospitable countrymen rush to judgement almost without fail whenever there is conflict between PH and another country, a sporting event, a singing contest, a beauty pageant, a foreigner accused of anything.

Yo Steve. When the people of the Capitol city of a country, i.e. Manila, allow a convicted criminal (documented) to run for the office of mayor of that city, and win! WTF is left? This alone tells the entire truth about the Philippine mentality!!! After screwing over the ENTIRE country, getting caught and jailed, the convicted criminal gets to become mayor of their capitol. Pontious Pilate would have washed his hands long ago!!! Yeah, got to church little sheep…

Maybe the US is not run by a criminal Black man, but it is staffed and dominated by too many stupid, useless, very badly-educated Black people. Everywhere you go in a Black city that is run by a Black mayor, there is a lot of crime, prostitution, crack and Black and Latino crackheads and sodomizers — my Black woman co-worker in Union Station once told me. Blacks do not know how to take care of anything given to them. You give them something and someplace nice, in a very short time they will turn it into a ghetto because that is all they know. Blacks are not expected to compete; they are not expected to live an honest life, they are not even expected to do anything in school. These are all very hard for their pea brains to do. I have gone to school with them and work with them for 20 years and I can verify to each and everyone Blacks are the stupidest and filthiest groups of peoples in the world. That is why they are rightfully called NIGGERS! It is going to take them 2,000 years to evolve. The Filipinos are way, way better compared to these NIGGERS!

On a serious note… When I was a struggling student in the US, I lived in Southeast, DC. Man, the place was wow… The Black people were not just so black on their skin, they were… wow…niggers in the truest sense of the word. Wow, these black people were filthy and stinky as hell. They were so stupid there is nothing one can do to help them. They are beyond everything, not just help. The worst thing is they smell worse than raccoons and they don’t even know and understand the smell on their body comes from bacteria breaking things down on their bodily skin because they don’t take a bath. Even those who called themselves middle-class blacks have the most horrible breath one could have ever smelled. Wow, the stink and the filth of these niggers are just unbelievable and to think we live in the internet age.

One thing people need to understand about the Philippines is that even though the country is Catholic in name, the culture of the people is Hindu. The Filipinos do not act Catholics for the most part- but mostly, they are like Indians or rather Malays.

There is passivity, aversion to any kind of criticism, and fatalism ( wala akong magagawa). It is the same culture you see in rural India. So, the Pinoys will not act like Westerners because of a fundamental Hindu character.

You look so ugly, Man! You need to hide your ugliness. I wonder how many people you offend everyday in the Philippines with your ugliness. I bet you stink, too. Take a bath, you bitch! Well, your ugliness is hopeless unless of course you got the money for surgery which I know you don’t.

If your gonna talk shit at least try to make some sense. Sad to say, but its comments like these that give Filipino’s a bad name. I’m half pinay and I’ve lived in the Philippines for 19 years (my whole life). I’ve had my shares of fucked up moments here in the country, it doesn’t mean I view the country negatively as a whole.
But I do agree that Filipinos have this certain pride when it comes to the country. Sometimes its just a tad bit out of place. The Philippines could use some change. So stop with the nigga comments, (Im guessing your Filipino as well @Rose Lerner) If you want respect for you and your country, learn to give respect to others and what their opinions are. Accept the facts and don’t let your ego get the best of you.

Is your nigger world perfect. Africa has gone three times poorer in the last 5 years. Niggers are cowards. They can only beat a human being when they are together like a bunch of gorillas that they are. One on one they are the most cowardly beasts. Bestial and primitive people.

LOL… face the truth man. The Filipinos are the cancer of Asia. I’m not saying all of them are, but majority of them are. Majority. The ones you saw, must be the minority. The good peoples. I live in Sabah, Malaysia, where their immigrants are trying to claim our lands. You don’t believe me? You can come over here to “Sabah says No to Philippines Claim” on Facebook. You will see everything that you need to know.

Yes, these are the actual words that are coming out of the mouth of kids age 10 and up wasting their time playing online game.

Well, this is a nice way to educate your kids. No wonder Filipino grows us as an asshole. Instead of using PC for gathering info or school project, they waste their mind and time playing games.

Wat’s worst is that some kids complain when the stupid games lag. If they use even part of their brain, they can use the pc and do a research about connection speed. For one thing, the PC here is old, therefore, the process is going to be slow. 2nd, if there are more than 10 players playing the same time, the connection will be slow (DUH!). And most of all, if the dsl connection is slow, then there is nothing anyone can do! GEEZ. I guess Filipino doesn’t have common sense either.

shame on you filipino hater’s .. what would your country look like without us ?? i know there’s a lot of contribution we have contribute to your country ..
you should look and the mirror palss!! we are not the one’s whose pathetic ,,.. we are all equal in Gods eyes and we are called human because our imperfections define us to be human .. because in this world there is nothing we can call perfect !!

Difference: If you leave something in Philippines, it will be gone within 5 seconds.

In India, the bag filled with 100k will still be there even after a week.

(Source from my friend who visited India for business purpose)

Other country: Give them hi-tech gadget and they use it to improve themselves and their country.

Philippines: Give them hi-tech gadget and they will ONLY use it for their personal pleasure.

Other country: Give them information and they will share it with the others to come up with more new ideas.

Philippines: Give them information and they will keep it for themselves.

Other country: They make new jobs to feed their people.

Philippines: They are (Even fucking proud about it) happy sending their own people abroad to make money instead of making factory and work at their own place. And of course, this will result in broken family and the kids will never grow up straight. (DUH!) This is certainly not something to be proud about.

Great! Let’s extract the good ones to make us better:
* Don’t touch/get things that you don’t own
* Let’s innovate existing technologies (great if Philippine-made)
* Let’s share information to come up with new and better ones
* Let’s create job opportunities for our people to feed their families and themselves.

Think, jack ass. what do you see? The world’s full chaotic happenings, especially in our country, where our politicians suck, police have but one kevlar vest(LoL), our government corrupt, thieves, immoral doings and it takes 30 mins for one officer to figure out something. I don’t really care about all of this, but sometimes, we filipinos tend to get really, really ignorant, and it is that that blinds us from the reality.

To the one who wrote this shit, shut the hell up! You don’t know anything about Filipinos true nature so what’s your right to say those things about us? And those maids you’re blogging about, they do those jobs because they love their families and wants to help them and not because they want Americans fucking money, okay? And don’t say bad things about our government! Most of them are doing their jobs right, yet you say that they don’t have the knowledge?! Who the hell are you to say those things?! Even if you have some points in here you still have no right to write such things. And if you’re a Filipino, then at least consider our country’s good points. Hell! Why most of the people only see the bad side of one thing and then don’t notice all the good things?

I can only LOL looking at all the comments. Can you guys not take a good laugh out of this? Or is it a Filipino thing to write page-long arguments instead of finding something better to do? Not hating, just saying…

It’s true, whoever wrote that, that the main problem of the Philippines is that it is run by meagerly educated, unintelligent people: tv personalities that are more concerned about how they look on camera because that is all what they know, action stars without even basic high school education telling superstitious, fearful personal story as an example why the Filipino women should not take contraceptives and if you say to the politician’s face you don’t believe him it will cost you your life , and other comical characters whose way of thinking is really ludicrous. As long as Filipinos are poor and have only very mediocre education people like those mentioned will be the leaders. The young, bright, well-educated, and progressive Filipinos who have studied abroad and adapted the principles of governing from the west should go into politics there. But, unfortunately, the dynastic families who are mostly made up of dunces and shameless rogues ( these are also in their genes, so will probably take thousands of generations to modify ) are so deeply entrenched. Help the poor Filipinos improve their IQs, give these poor a chance and all those worthless, scumbag Filipino politicians and priests will be put out of business. Especially adopt the Chinese policy: only 1 or 2 kids for each couple. The Filipinos keep having babies, so there will be an endless stream of people going abroad to work, to be abused, deprived of the most basic human rights, so that the rich Filipino families back home who own all of the businesses will stay supported. Let the rich Filipinos ( who almost all claim Spanish or European descent because it sounds glamorous even without an inch of intelligence to go with it ) eat their own feces.

It is easy to criticize the poor Filipinos because you live right in their midst and probably when you first arrived many of them have taken advantage of you. I am Filipino; I was glad I was catapulted to the US because I could not take the barbarism and disgusting habits and values anymore. Many years later, with a lot more maturity and life experience here in the US, I can fairly say that the poor Filipinos have the attributes of all the poor people everywhere. Their very bad behavior stemmed from the “culture of poverty”. Poor people have the strong feelings of marginality, dependency, isolation, and helplessness — “We will still be poor tomorrow, so why not take advantage of what we can today.” There is no thought about who might get hurt by their actions, they are helpless enough as it is. Poor people all over the world, including Filipinos, have the same attitudes, values, and behaviors
They feel inferior, powerless, unworthy. They are also subjected to a lot of discrimination and deprivation. They know they are being treated like helpless children when they are deprived of even the most basic things. What can they do? They just behave the way they are treated — like a bunch of savages.
Although it is very, very hard to get out of poverty when one is born into it, it can happen, but with so many kids around, how? The burden of having too many children is ever a blight. You’re already very poor, little educated, can only work as a laborer, what can you do? — You will just swallow what they shove into you, even though deep inside you want to fight back, but again, how? Everywhere you treat people this way, they resort to savagery and uncivilized way.
If you allow people to move up, they will gradually adopt the ways of their better. They know that their behavior needs improvement, and once they get better in life: they got good education, can eat well and what they like, are allowed to participate in government without fear, and many more, they will choose to become decent. All those asking for money, depending on relatives and foreigners to feed them will go away.

Do not for a moment think the Filipino government does not know this. They are too cunning for you to call them out on this. The Philippine Catholic Church is the only Catholic in the world who is still subservient to the “orders” of the Vatican. Take the example of the Italians. They are staunch catholics, but the Vatican cannot tell them to have as many babies as they need to. Why? Because Italians are rich, educated, and sophisticated. The Vatican can only do this to poor, ignorant, and superstitious Filipinos. If they don’t obey the Filipino priests, where will they go after their painful life on earth? There’s got to be a heaven somewhere where they can go and have a nice life after their earthly sufferings. And the only way they know how to get there is through the quaky Filipino priests. Has anyone seen a hungry-looking Filipino priest? It is a very good occupation to be a Filipino priests and Filipino nuns. Not only do you have the power over the poor, you also get to eat all the lechons, and enjoy a middle class status.

There is no need to this. But everyone knows the answer. Filipinos can change. Stop having babies. Know and learn that there are so many ways to be happy, not just through having too many babies whose lives you have already ruined even before they have started them. Don’t believe what those unintelligent politicians tell you — get on the best you can and your life will change not very much maybe, but better than what you are suffering now. Stop listening to the foolish priests. Read Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose to remind you over and over that there are other ways to feel secured, not just having faith with these lying priests.

Samuel Clemens put it the best way: Faith is believing what you know ain’t true. It is all illusion. The Filipino church wants you to live that way, at the cost of so many generations of sufferings, so they can stay in business. They should not have any place anymore in the age of the Internet.

You piece of shit! Bad things? What the fucking fuck! He was just stating facts ( in general ). But if i’m to add 19 and 20, it’d be filipinos smoke TOO FUCKING MUCH! Left, right, north, south! Gooood motherfreakin hell! And of course ugly. Well, not all of them but MOST of them. Poor, unintelligent, emotional, ugly, and unjust at the same motherfucking time! Sorry for the profanity. But it’s just because i’m serious.

FILIPINOS SUCK. BEEN THERE. SAW IT. IT IS JUST PARTIAL OF THE LIST. FUCKING DUMB IDIOTS THAT SPREAD LIKE A DISEASE — if you are poor – do not make any more children you stupid fucks — have decency, treat one kid well and not 10 to starve

No it’s not a perfect world and people aren’t perfect, but when a country is in dismay and the govt. is not taking any action to improve it, I believe people have to take the criticism and learn from it and turn it into a positive. You can’t live in the past. YOu need to go forward. Nothing lives if you are in the past. A flower cannot grow unless you water it.

Alas Noli Me Tangere is very relevant to our time. If I have a choice yo be an Expatriate, I will

I am proud that I am an Outcast of my fellow Filipino. It only shows I don’t belong to these dystopic hell called thd Republic of the Philippines

Of about the stupid Leftist Activist. Don’t even bother showing up. I hate your goddamn clamours, I won’t hesitate to block you
This also goes with the Masses, any sign of shallowness or strong reference on oyr pop culture, I will block you and I don’t even care if you are my friend. You are a blight in this country like everyone else. I can even disown my family for it

HEY STUPID! IT IS A DISCRIMATION AGAINST A RACE because you focus on a certain group of ethnicity… read the dictionary better way GO TO SCHOOL.. and ASK FOR SOCIALOGY CLASSES SO YOU CAN DEFINE DISCRIMATION AND PREJUDISM VERY WELL.. the words you actually cut and paste are an article AGAINST A RACE.. DUMB ASS

cuz if you critisize a filipino or you yourself, I won’t here the last of it..Listen up you stupid, it’s people like you who are not encouraging Filipinos. You have to bad mouth filipinos to wake them up or else all they will do is resort to complacency and again vote without thinking…no brain for a boxer in the next presidency…Then it just won’t be filipino’s who will be critizising filipinos but the rest of the world will think Filipinos are the dumbest people in the world, and on its way there.

Why do you assume they are underage? Because most Filipino think foreigners who go to PH are all paedaphile! The truth is 99.9% aren’t. Irony here is though, the number of child sex offences committed in PH by filipino.!!!

Francis
I’ve got to admit that I don’t know much about Jabbawockeez, but when looking them up, something caught my attention: Filipinos misbehaving once again. The group is innocent of course, but man, I can’t let the ugly behavior slide. My blog entry will be coming up.

I was born in the Philippines and moved to the US when I was a teenager, and I can’t deny these facts mentioned above. I haven’t been home for a while but I think some if not all of these are still ongoing, and it’s sad. I grew up in Bacolod so I’m not sure about the Tagalogs and their hate for Visayans, I’m gonna have to research about that. It makes me a sad panda. Anyway, they could’ve added Wowowee on the list. I visited my mom and was shocked to see this show in one of her Filipino Channel. The “Kembot Girls” literally made my jaw drop. I can’t believe they tolerate such shows on DAYTIME, that clearly degrades women. But my heart still goes out to my fellow Filipinos and the never-dying hope that our country and the people there will step-up and improve their own worsening situation. It’s gotta start there first before someone from the outside should even bother and interfere.

…One word not all filipinos are trolls dick heads and ..whatever you say… This is just so wrong … this is how you view the world of philippines, I am a proud filipino and you’re just being a dick.. i hope god forgives you all

Yeah Jose, just what in Fucks name are you proud of??? Rampant corruption? Thousands of 14 year old unwed mothers(unspported)??? Your invisible national railway system(a possible TRUE sense of pride)??? Your ten year mandatory school education(immature minds cutoff in their prime of development)? The Mayor of your capitol city being a convicted criminal(and former President too!)? Your churches draining “contributions” from the poorest people(the Church already has more money than the Government)? Your “buyable” police forces(how many truly legal drivers licenses are on the roads)? Although I could type a few pages more, I’ll stop here. Seems like your pride is clouded over by pure ignorance. I guess you probably heard that it snowed in Manila in 1984 too!!! Get a fucking life!!1

YOU SUCK SO MUCH THAT YOUR PARENTS THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE BETTER IF THEIR SPERMS ARE SHOULD BE RUB IN THE BLANKET THAN USING IT TO BRING YOU TO LIFE.. THEY ARE THINKING WHY DID THEY DO THAT .. BITCH ..

Seriously…..we fils get it that we arent as great as US or other countries and sure we mess up things a lot but u think that bcuz we make mistakes doesnt mean we cant do anything right in life……and i have to admit that there is a core of truth in those 18 statements but doesnt mean we cant change for the benefit of it….P.S. U SUCK

I would honestly let you know if RELIGION PROMOTES PEACE, LOVE, RESPECT and all the GOOD ASPECT OF LIFE then this person PROMOTES HATE AS HIS RELIGION! If he hate filipino that much how much more he would love other culture….NNNNAAAHHH.. He won’t. He definitely also HATE HIMSELF.. HE HAVE SUCH A LOW ESTEEM THAT HE WROTE THIS ARTICLE AS A MEAN TO EMPHASIZE HIS ANGER and that is called PROJECTION one of the defense mechanism of human being. I am so sorry to say, how can he (the writer) Iove others if he doesn’t love himself.

Yes! they are! I’m a student but i know these things! That guy who rote those 18 stupid things, you better watch your mouthbutt. We are proud to be Filipinos because we are who we are! we dont need to be hypocrites and pretend to be someone we are not. we’re poor, because we are poor. we eat with our hands, because we eat with our hands. how bout those damn people who pretend to be a clever, rich and elegant person but turns out to be someone who loves to insult other nations! grow up. i’m with LoL!

*right*
sincerely from someone who can’t do anything right
seriously? the people here have to work harder than you to get
food.
and everything you do is much easier because you have your technology
were lucky to even have a computer

yah some of his statementas are correct but its also wrong to judge all filipinos by othere peoples mistakes some are nice some are good its
just we arent like american work work wrok we are really laid back
swe dont work alot in america its hard to talk to your neighbors here we just go in talk talk then go in next day netx day next day everythings just soo laid back here

your proud that you had people power for the past 30 years and no progress…lol…Filipinos are good in other countries…to bad the filipinos in the philippines are losers, especially the govt. losers, losers, losers….get it in your head that the Philipinnes whether you are proud, is a loser nation, maybe even loser than some african nations.

you can’t blame the guy for speaking his mind, if you dont like it then dont read it. anyways i dont hate the philippine media, i just dont like it so i dont watch it. politics? i dont give a damn i got tired of it a long time ago, and for all you haters out there, go do something better and dont just say it, prove it

I love this.Even though i was a bit hurt because i love the Philippines dearly.All these things are true and I won’t deny it.I am Filipino and I get really pissed of when ever my family and I would vacation in the Philippines and our Friends and Relatives always expects us to give out money to them if not money them some sort of “pasalubong” just because we’re from the States.And you’re also right about the copycat thing.Oh and I just love the Last one number 18.How these anti-americans burn the american flag during their protest but they don’t know that 1% of American Tax money goes out to them to feed their sorry asses.And everytime a disaster strikes they expect us to help them out.Bunch of Hypocrites!!!But despite all these negative things I still love the Philippines.

Jasmine you are so right. They always expect you to give them something. Don’t they realize we work so hard for our money? I hate it when they ask for PASALUBONG, it pisses me off. But lets admit it, some of these are facts. But hey, tsimays go after white Americans? I am married to an American but ME NO TSIMAY. I do have a Masters degree and had a very good life back in RP. I met my hubby while vacationing in Boracay with my friends,make the story short I fell in love with him. TRY COLLECTING A DEBT TO SOMEONE WHO OWES YOU? Oh my Dear Lord, this is so true. I met two filipinas, they both borrowed money and it has been 4 long years;FORGOTTEN,BURIED IN THEIR MAYBE SO BAD MEMORIES OR SHOULD I CALL IT “KAKAPALAN NG MUKHA”. Anyways, I am a filipino, I am proud of who I am. Its not about nationality;its one’s personality whether or not a FILIPINO. PEACE TO ALL

Again i don’t agree..Someone owes me money she’s European and I am the Filipino.she promised me to pay it after 1 mo.almost 2 mo.now had passed i never heard anything from her..It happens everywhere not just in the Philippines.It is in the humanity self not in d country..About pasalubong anything you give be it a small or big people appreciate it while you do that in foreign country you’ll be insulted..so give if it comes really fr your heart and better not if you will regret giving..

Putanginamo I am part Philipeno btw Filippeno and Philippeno are the same im bored so i searched sites to post the first word anyways i dont even no much about my heritage so yea id just like to tell jstuff Putanginamo its a Philippeno word

The reasons that you put on why the Philippines “sucks” I understand. Yet, in every place around the world…people will have their reasons. Now although I have my reasons for not liking the Philippines(I have asthma and I can barely breathe in the Philippines’ airport) I am also proud of the attitude of the people from the Philippines and the hard work that the parents had to endure in the process of immigration. I have a semi-lavish life compared to the Philippines, but I wouldn’t be where I am today without my parents. Some of the reasons you have listed are due to I suppose money problems. Which happens all around the world, but that is not the point. Living in a tough world and being poor has taught my parents to be generous and understanding. Living in poor standards, I believe, is better and gives a standard to all the younger generations. The Philippines may not be perfect nor great compared to most countries, but it definitely does not “suck” in my opinion and have great things to offer to others even though it may not be materialistic.

Look JStuff29, I have alot of Filipina friends here in Dublin and they are so kind, friendly and funny. They are also talented, like Charice, Manny, the guy from Jabawokeez, the drummer from Metro Station who quitted with Blake Healy yesterday. Well, and they are very helpful nurses! It just depends on a race. You know what I mean? Just because States or other countries are cool doesn’t mean Philippines are uncool. May God have mercy on your soul. You do not have the right to post bad stuff about Filipinos. Oh yeah, about the TV Shows, America and other countries have copyrights to their TV Shows and of course Filipinos are going to ask for permission. Dude, are you bored? So thats why you’re doing this? They are very hard-working and they are unique. Lol. Have fun. You had a sin.

Why you hate the philippines?
It’s actually fucking natives in canada.
You bitch ass panas living in the corner begging for food
with fucked up faces, don’t say shit about philippines when
natives were the 1st to canada and end up being the poorest.

All characteristics are undeniably exist in the climate of the Philippine society, However, those such is not a ground to shame our fellow Filipino people, instead lead them in the so that they can lead…

People knew to “attack” only, is those who are ignorant for other alternative and appropriate approaches to empower their folks.

Anyway, those person who throws egg on our face had done nothing to our plights.

All characteristics are undeniably exist in the climate of the Philippine society, However, those such is not a ground to shame our fellow Filipino people, instead lead them in the way so that they can lead also…

People knew to “attack” only, is those who are ignorant for other alternative and appropriate approaches to empower their folks.

Anyway, those person who throws egg on our face had done nothing to our plights.

oh yeah,but your country is the god mother of prostitutes..in your country it’s legal..they just roam around and get sex even in public..and what i say is true! so wake up and clean your country first ok?

I should add the corruption in your country is by far the worst in the asia pacific, quite possibly the world. Now we have a corrupt cop murdering Hong Kong and Canadian citizens, your useless cops standing around like a bunch of monkeys, and to make matters worse your citizens taking photos, giggling, laughing and having a great time in the area around the murder scene. Only in the Philippines….god fearing? Yes, you better be fearing god after shit you guys pile on others.

Just got back from my HOMELAND and YES its everywhere. Our country is badly governed by corrupt politicians. Its a PYRAMID ” From the leaders to the people”.Leaders corrupt the money,people gets poorer…so so so on!

OMFG. Thank you for finally pointing that out. I can’t believe that for 9+ months, others are replying with the assumption that I wrote the list. Perhaps it’s due to unclear citation of the source or maybe others are just in a state of rage after reading the list.

Most of them are true but the Philippines don’t suck. Do you know why those things happen? It’s because we are street smarts. We are exposed to the worst case scenario making us intelligent. See, most Filipinos are smarter than others. There’s always a reason for things that happen.

yeh filipino is street smart….thats the point…worlds best scammers, liars, copiers, thieves….and bullshitters…particularly to themselves….intelligent….name a fucking thing that any pinoy excell at internationally in fields of science or technology or art…the usual flip narciscism

Bad things about Philippines: people peeing in the streets, worst traffic i’ve ever seen, corrupt politicians, no national identity, oily fattening food, rumor-mongering an accepted past time, crab mentality, Filipinas considered just domestic helpers, mail order brides, prostitutes, japayukis, really low standard of living, crappy Filipino movies, lack of divorce, lack of abortion, lack of social support for the aged, poor, sick, abandoned children, homeless, there are plenty of squatters, dirty rivers, humongous gap between rich and the poor, rich foreigners live like kings while Filipinos wallow in the slums and shitholes, children eating crap in the streets, unemployment, i’ve never seen the Philippines progress since I was born, police protect criminals for money, sucky justice system, justice can be bought with money, no national voice, same crappy politicians and dynasties get voted year after year, unruly bus drivers, jeepney drivers, PHILIPPINES SUCK!

Hey “Fuck U”, Fuck you too!! Fuck your family, Fuck your bloodline, “Fuck U” you’re just ONE PIECE OF SHIT lost in the Philippines YOU’RE NOT EVEN HUMAN!! YOU’RE A TWO-LEGGED SHIT-ANIMAL THAT ASSUMES THE NAME “Fuck U”

I’ve lived here for six months. It certainly does coincide almost perfectly with what Mr.JsStuff it saying. We can’t deny these things considering the fact that most of them are true. I’m not saying that they apply to all Filipinos, but what he says about society is quite accurate. I honest;y think that people should read this and take it more as constructive criticism rather than an insult. Look at America, the world hates them and calls them out for alot of things, but at least they make up for it in alot of ways. The Philippines is a beautful country as protrayed by the government and media, but in reality it’s a farce.the things in this list, we can only accept them and move on. Btw JsStuff didn’t write it he just reposted it.

hey jstuff29 STOP ACTING LUNATIC! CYBER BULLY.. what is your excuse.. for discrimanating others and being prejudice from OTHER RACE.. I expect that you dont lonely hate FILIPINOS BUT ALSO OTHER NATION “WHO IS NOT PERFECT” IN YOUR IMAGINATION.

To our dearest blogger,
So much hate to our beloved country? I hate to admit those things you have said but it’s really happening in philippines..But wait, have you ever think is this the ground to be called as Suck country? What’s your point in blogging this? You want an attention or what? Or you just want us inspite of these criticisms, to stand waving our flag and says “who cares, i am a Filipino and i am proud of it.

Despite of this, I want to thank you to make me believe that someday all these will be changed and we all be united to stand against all odds. May God bless you and your family…

It’s fun to be a filipino but I’m not proud of it, it’s just this, stupid voters who elects the same corrupt motherfuckers, high taxes directly sent to motherfucker’s wallets, high unemployment rate. i hate everything about the philippines I just want to migrate in the north america together with my family so I can leave this fucking shit hole. I FUCKING HATE THE PHILIPPINES !! PUTANG INA LALO NA YUNG GOBYERNO!

who wrote this article? shame on you. discriminating others for you to look good? wether the author of this article be a filipino or not, i just want to say to him… thnx. for being such a jerk. waiting for your reply. and if you want me to see me in person just say so. just be sure to have bodyguards. but bodyguards won’t work. Dalton For Life.

dang. Yes, I’ve observed these traits when I stayed in the Philippines. but who the hell are you to criticize an entire race? if you feel bad then keep it to yourself. you think you’re higher than them for being a racist doochbag? well guess what, your lower than them. your the stupid ingrate here. not the Filipinos. they do what they can to survive. you were born in a rich family where your mom practically fed you til you were 40 years old. try living in thier shoes. then lets see if you can still say what you just said

I love this website, because filipino’s are the #1 contridictors and hypocrites in the entire world….The Filipino Channel and it’s programs, television, movies, are to be ashamed of…is there any dialogue in those movies and shows? All I here is yelling, shouting, and screaming…and your varieties shows, ughhhhhhh….no wonder everyone wants to leave the Philippines…The imperialism and autocratism thought has never left the Filipino mindset…80% of Filipina women are just plain mean and evil and filipinos are so prejudice and racist, even amongst themselves…Get your act together Filipino’s….We are living in a modern society now…stop living scared and superstitious and rid your country of growing homosexuality and idolitry. It’s the only way, God will bless the Philippines, when Filipino’s will rid themselves of hypocrisy, homosexuality, free-riding, and pridefullness….Filipino’s would be better off if they were a buddist or muslim nation….Christianity has failed in this country…

Actually, These are VERY true especially number 14. PH Sucks. Even if you don’t admit it I’m a filipino but I really don’t like what the fuck is happening in our country, A very Good Example is this thread/blog you guys are flaming the creator of this thread so bad to think that he said in the beginning that he just QUOTED

Actually, These are VERY true especially number 14. PH Sucks. Even if you don’t admit it I’m a filipino but I really don’t like what the fuck is happening in our country, A very Good Example is this thread/blog you guys are flaming the creator of this thread so bad to think that he said in the beginning that he just QUOTED it. Politicians sucks, Everything can be bought by money. vote, life, dignity, sex.

Of all the thing that you posted, #14 is really a striking truth… I have seen this with my own eyes..

But the problem with your post is that it get generalized… Not all filipino are like that… I for one is not… you don’t seem like one also… and I have met some wonderful friends that I can really look up to as a character. So as I have said, its not everyone

As for the other things….

Our joke, its not corny, I was just reading some post in another site where those who post are putting some form of sms jokes and I was really laughing…

however, movies suckss.. you can add mtrcb for the blame. They just cut all the possible improvement and their stupid old belief…

However, we do have our own original thing… I still remember eraserheads songs…. they are really nice… although a lot of recording company neglected them first because their songs was not made by a nice composer (this was when they where just starting)…

Anyway, lets not take this as a very negative thing but something to change for the better… I am also working abroad and I hate all this bad crap… It is also present in other race but it sure manifest most in ours… and whenever I see them… I immediately identify them and tell it to the person… if they change, then we continue to be friend but if not, I move on… At least they know what I don’t like of them… and hopefully the will change for the better…

What seems to be some of you people’s problem? THE TRUTH HURTS doesn’t it? Some of you need to take those blinders off your eyes and see what’s really going on. I know most of you know that these are common practices among Filipinos and yet you’re still denying them as if somebody just made them up just for kicks. I’m as Filipino as it gets, but when I see something that isn’t right, I’ll be the first one to say so. Don’t say that none of the above is true or else you’re just like the hypocrites that’s been mentioned on this list. The nasty traits… the primitive practices… the provincial mindset… these are ALL true. Some of you might not see them in your own household, but we all know that some of your friends, relatives, neighbors, etc. all have engaged in these at one time or another. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if those people are still practicing these fucked up habits religiously!

Wow, people here who claim that Filipinos shouldn’t be “generalized” just don’t have a clue what generalization means, which proves again that you lot are idiots. Generalization is something that affects or characterizes the majority of those involved. So if we say that Filipinos are brown and 8 out of 10 of them are you retard, it doesn’t mean that all Filipinos are brown but the damn majority of them ARE. Here we can see a “generalization” being true.

I don’t even know why this word connotes something negative in the Philippines (the ironic thing is it becomes something automatically someone would say w/o even understanding the word) but maybe it has something to do with the fact that these are indeed true so many of you go with this self-defense.

So if we say that a Filipino citizen’s vote can be bought, it doesn’t mean all act that way but many of you do. You can’t deny facts like vote buying for a measly can of sardines or a measly peso amount because this happens indeed on the national scale. Sad fact about is that many do indeed sell their votes come election time.

Not all of you may be guilty of these things but there sure is a hell lot of you doing it without thinking about your future. Democracy isn’t for a race filled with idiots and in the Philippines, we can see why.

You Filipinos are fucking idiots. Now, not all of you but many of you are. How’s that for generalization that strikes close to home?

jem, u are one of a few pinoys who have an intellect. i see and read only the way u r typing. and i note already ur not an emotionally driven monkey. i would believe ur one of a few pinoys i could have as western interesting conversations with a person like u . respect for that , that uve recognized the bad fact how many many pinoys are. respect and this is no ironic meaning . many of the pinoy have absolutely no intellect…like stupid emotionally driven monkeys …i use harsh words coz it stucked already in my brain what ive seen in the phils..

Sad but true. It’s a societal cancer. I can’t fathom why people are getting mad these blog when every Filipino knows these are true.

@Filipinos who we’re offended by these FACTS: No matter how much you bash the blogger who posted this (he wasn’t even the one who wrote it) the facts won’t change. Nobody here even said that all Filipinos are like that. If you think you’re not one of those Filipinos mentioned then stop acting like you’re one of them. If we can’t accept the facts we can’t change them. Be civilized. Act like how an educated person would.

As a foreigner married to a Filipina living in the Phils for 5 years, these comments no doubt ring true. But I’m also crritical of my home country when I see wrong. Pointing out the bad is the only way to improve, got to clearly identify the probs to fix them, denial won’t fix anything. This applies to any country.

But on balance, there are so many good things about the Phils such as the always happy and optimistic people. If you embrace the faults and postives of the country you can have much fun here. A smile and a “good afternoon” in local dialect goes a long way.

Most of these 18 issues, yea are problems, but not so bad for a developing country.

Fix these 3 serious problems and the rest will take care of themselves:
1. Corruption- yep, everyone knows it.
2. Justice system- Can’t have cops selling you your freedom, courts taking 20 years to settle a case, and people killing for a few thousand pesos, cause they know they can hide.
3. Infrastrucure- without roads, power, and water no one’s going to invest seriously.

If all you can say is that the Philippines is a really dirty country and that it’s people are also dirty and rude then you haven’t seen it all. It’s not perfect but the Philippines is a very beautiful place it’s just, unfortunately, unmaintained and rather abused😦. It’s people can be extraordinarily generous despite the poverty. I’d say Filipinos are happy people. But yes we have a long way to go – starting with ourselves – then our lousy government. Bahala na. We’ll pull through some how, eventually.🙂

maybe you are saying that because of what you have seen .. but did you realize that all of these 18 whatever it are nonsense? try lookin at your own country .. what can you see? are you seeing things that can beat our country? if there is then you are lucky but what can we present to you that can beat many countries is that we are more religous that you .. if you are a Filipino then we are ashamed of you .. maybe the government is not that perfect but don’t look at them .. look at the Filipino who travels around the world to make their family stay alive for the whole years and to make them happy too .. we love to see you in person and maybe when we did then do all the pointers pointers .. you can say these things because you are far away from us ..

sorry to say but Filipinos are patient and hospitable and whatever you say to us don’t make us mad .. it makes us stronger .. it makes us feel like we want to fight for our country more .. thanks for confessing all these things ..

God Bless you and I hope you will realize someday why you wrote this ..

Im Filipino yes all of your reason is right
its the fact really
Reasons Why
*Filipinos Are Sex Addicts thats why their birthrate is high
*They Do Everything To Get Money if means to sell their body organs

Filipino people SUCKS! They breed EXTREMELY fast, and LOT, usually a whopping DOZEN and as fast as one child a year! And their country is lawless, you’re immune to law if you’re rich. And F***! Trash everywhere! If you’re environmentalist you’d surely be insane there. And corruption, their corruption is ABSOLUTE. And religions, DAMN! A SEA of brainwashed, unthinking idiots and superstitions EVERYWHERE!

to the one who wrote these 18 things on a blog or somewhere
congrats you made some money for doing this but
and to others who are flaming are race if you cant say good things to a country like ours keep it to yourself dont badmouth something you dont really deeply knowwe filipinos know whats happening on our country so let our country men fix our problems mind your country’s business

pinoys if any of us sees a thing like this be moderate in reacting lets behave and try to settle things in a peaceful way
kaya tayo nasasabihan ng walang pinagaralan dahil msyado tayo nagpapadala sa emosyon natin

hey. i understand that you are only reposting this from somewhere. but the fact that your blog is named philippinessuck, much more reposting this, already gives the implication that you believe in this stuff (nothing worth reposting is worth believing).

although, i find it amazing that you dedicate your whole blog (i only looked at the title, and i dont have any drive to go through the rest of the entries, because i know it’s all crap) just to deprecrate a country, and to self-deprecate your race (if you’re a Filipino; i hope not).

i don’t knw. maybe it’s just something you do to get attention—lust for web fame— but it’s nothing worth to be reading.

i actually regret clicking the link to this article (if that’s what it is). the person who made this list (most probably your friend who has nothing better to do to just like you), doesn’t have an idea. i mean, yea, the streets of Manila are dangerous, but i love walking on them. there is a difference between experiencing something fully, from pretending to be experiencing something while seeing yourself above everything that belongs to that something.

i think that you post that just to hurt filipinos feeling .😦
fellow filipinos
*never mind about this blog.
cause were not like that :)) right ?
ahh . shit , being nonsense😐
by the way theres no perfect country :))

You are so right buddy! No matter where they go, how they act and boast, there are still a Filipinos.. Good for maid and lick people’s shoe and nothing else!! They can be a very good slave to a certain extent…Woo hooo!!

oh hey,I’am a filipino in a foreign country somewhere i Europe but i don’t work as a slave..but i have respect for those who works as maid and no respect at all to persons like you..you are disgrace of humanity and maybe ur partner has left you for a filipino..I think soo😀

Don’t hate these comments about Filipinos. These are true. Look around you, take a good look. Instead of complaining about these comments, use them to fix yourself. Being open minded and open to criticism can help a lot. Use your brain and not your pride for once

I may be born and raised here in the Philippines but I wholeheartedly agree with this post. Just because it was written by a Filipino doesn’t mean s/he’s unpatriotic or hates this country. In fact s/he’s doing it some good by exposing the wrongs that need to be fixed.

To the trolls and haters here, why all the insults and swear words? Was it the truth? Did it hurt?

And perhaps most of you have never heard of http://www.antipinoy.com. Give the website a click and see what other painful truths they expose about this sucky country. And yes, the website is manned by a team made of pure Filipinos too.

This comment is not generalized to all Filipinos,but a few (yet growing in numbers) of them are:
Filipino men= Robbers, Thieves, Gun for Hire, Rapist, Murderer, Carjackers, Addicted to alchohol and drugs.

Filipina= always ended up to be a single mother cause their partners cheated on them or employed in a minimum wage company while their partners are gambling and drinking.

Philippine Police= Motto:” We serve and protect”, we serve politicians and we protect criminal syndicates.

Philippines Face the truth.

I am a Filipino, I don’t have any grudge against my fellowmen or any nation. Philippines is a great country and great people to live with but with bad things increasing in number, it ruins us as a whole.

I’m a Filipino, I’m proud of about 20% of my country(at least that’s something) and also the one who wrote that list,THE MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!

-Manny Paquiao is a good boxer but that doesnt mean he should be hailed like a national hero
-Filipino media still has some good indie movies, but that’s about it…
-the traffic system sucks, nuff said
-the filipino common man needs to get his shit straight if he wants a better government and a better country, he can start by:
-OBEYING TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN RULES
-CLEANING HIS OWN FRONT YARD
-STOP SPITTING ON THE STREETS
-STOP RELYING TOO MUCH ON A DIETY THAT WAS USED BY A FOREIGN COUNTRY THAT SCARED HIM TO DO AS THEY SAY
-TURN OFF THE FUCKING TV SET AND GRAB A GOOD BOOK
-STOP CARING SO MUCH ABOUT THE LIVES OF OTHERS AND START THINKING ABOUT HIS

1. LOL now its 100.
2. LOL now its 1000.
3. AGREED! but the foreigners tag along with it, both sides stupid.
6. Yes.
8. Check.
9. Most of the time.
10. Always.
13. Damn right.
14. Depends entirely on the bride. But mostly yeah.
16. I laugh at this one too.

Dunno

4. I do this, but only jokingly. I dunno for some.
15. Never seen/heard/experienced one.

Disagree

5. Everywhere there is “free” food, people are bound to dig in, ESPECIALLY the slums area. What do you expect?
7. That lender just happen to lend money at the wrong person… it happens everywhere.
11. Beggars and alms in the same sentence.
12. Everywhere there is controversy.
17. Green Day has American Idiot, and they LIVE in America.
18. Not entirely true.

NoNameNoname:
1. I don’t understand… mainly because it is not understandable.
2. AGREED 100%.
3. High crime rate but not highest. Check out the Americas (North and South) and Africa😐
4. Same price… in the US most items have taxes, while in the Philippines, they already added the tax to the price, giving you the illusion that they are more expensive.
5. Check your grammar, you’re giving them a hint that you are Filipino.
6. Stupidity streak started from Erap until who knows.

Just stating out the facts😀
Plenty of reasons why The Philippines suck, but there are also plenty of reasons to love it😀
Pinoy ako, pero nag iingles lng ako dahil nag-iingles din kayo😀

1. Yeah, Pacquiao not a national hero.
2. No comment.
3. I hate this… same problem even in our little town.
4a. Agreed
b. I haven’t seen anything like a dirty front yard before😐
c. Yes, but some couldn’t help it though… their jobs are menial and very physically tiring, and spitting is involuntary.
d. Over 9000% agree with you. I personally hate religion.
e. For now I have to agree, unless they start to play educational shows and documentaries… not that shit of a midday game show with stupid jokes, and stupid antics, making the majority of the population think stupid too.
f. Not really sure what you mean, it could be positive or negative… If you mean that Filipinos should leave other people’s problems alone, then +1

I was starting to like your blog until I read this. I could think of more than 18/better reasons why our countrymen/country suck. Your reasons are too broad.

1.) Corrupted Gov.
need I say more about this?

2.) No sense of initiative
We rarely do things for the better. We usually have this thinking that as long as we can feed our family everything is okay. That’s good because we have close family ties but is that it? Do we just stop there? I remember I was in California, almost all of the doctors were Indians, people prefered them to be their doctor because Indians are known for their smarts. And what do we do in America? Be maids, nurses, caregivers, janitors; I’m not “belitteling” those jobs, I’m saying that we’ve been those people too long, my lola was a caregiver and now most of our ofw women are still known to be caregivers, when are we going to develop a higher ranking or education? India and Philippines used to be in the same situation, years later we’re still in the same pot hole while they’re up there almost with Japan and China.

3.) Too much pride
Pride is bad people. For the religious, it’s in the Bible! For those who aren’t so religious, if you think about it, yelling “PINOY PRIDE!” is pretty annoying and sensless, you’ll look like a dork, kapal mukha, specially if youre in another country. Just imagine Americans here in the Philippines, all wearing a map of America on their shirts, American flag here and there and in every conversation “Oh I’m American blablabla”. Not just America, just imagine any country who would do that in our own counrty. Sounds rude amirite?

4.) Lack of manners
Other than #3 as an example, I rarely hear Filipino’s say please, thank you, excuse me, sorry unless they are told to. Filipinos brag about knowing english so well but when it comes to this “oh, in my native village/country I we don’t have po and opo, I wasn’t raised like that”, but you just said you knew english very goods.

5.) Lack of Discipline
Could be related to #4. Ride any public transportation and you’ll know what I mean. Yes, even LRT/MRT, the passengers don’t know how to take turns (#4!). Drivers rarely make way for others, even pedestrians. Don’t get me started with traffic rules.

6.) Too Senstive
Related to too much pride, Filipinos would violently react to anything that would go against their Pinoy pride, an example would be this blog, anti-pinoy and the Carolla guy I forgot his name. Problem here is that most people don’t know the difference between comedy and an insult. Feeling palaging inaapi. We can’t live in a world full of praises people. Laughing at our negative sides can be a good thing, as long as we don’t live it that way.

7.) Racist
Yes we are. Very much.

8.) Don’t know how to help ourself
We blame others (gov.) but we never try to change our selves which makes us no different form them.

9.) Sells sex
I know everybody does it, but come ooon. We should know better. Specially apl.de.ap. Ever since his bebot became a hit (in our country), everything else he’s been rapping about is about the Philippines and girls from the philippines. I like it better when he was rapping about life in the Apl song but I guess he found out the secret on how to earn Philippine popularity. Does it ever bother you when the only praise you’ll hear from foreigners are;
1.) They have nice beaches, 2.) they have nice bitches and 3.)hospitality. Hospitality? pfft. Yeah, right. Only applies to you if you’re from another country.

Ok so that’s not 18 reasons but they are WAAAYYY much better than your list🙂
Everything else I hate about our selves shall fall in those categories.

I did not even read any of the articles. I don’t have to.
Everyone will have their own opinion about why the Philippines sucks. I just want to air out mine. The country is full of people that have been trained to avoid using their brains. They mindlessly follow rules and procedures. They often take shit and allow themselves to be abused by their bosses, government, and their God. If there is one thing you can be sure of in this country, is that if you trust in the system and in the people, you will be fucked in the ass at every single corner. Nothing works in this country. Fast food is slow as hell. Customer service will stress you out. And the schools will make you a goddamn idiot. I really hate this place and all the stupid people I have to deal with. Sure we cant generalize and say EVERYONE is dumb, i mean i am Filipino after all. But damn! Filipinos ARE FUCKIN DUMB! You guys see this Lola Lourdes thing? An 85 yr old woman is locked in a cage by her daughter and son in law. Television crew shows up with the DSWD to rescue her… HUGE PUBLIC OUTCRY… and guess what? No one is arrested. DSWD official even argues on camera THAT THE FACT THAT THESE ANIMALS ARE EXPOSED ON TV FOR THEIR CRIMES IS PUNISHMENT ENOUGH!!!!! What a fucking moron. the only duty of this branch of government is to protect women, children, and the elderly. YOU SEE AN OLD WOMAN LOCKED IN A CAGE AND BEATEN LIKE A DOG AND SAY “ok naman si lola eh, nakalakad naman siya di ba?” HOLY SHIT! This is our country. Built on a big pile of bullshit. Proud to be pinoy! HA! what a load of bull. if everyone had an opportunity, no one would fucking stay. I’m proud to say I am a filipino, because foreigners are pleasantly surprised to meet one that isn’t trying to extort money from them. You’ll be hard pressed to find any place in the world where people treat each other worse than in the Philippines. People here hate each other, and have a big smile on their face while they stab you in the back. A friend of mine had a car accident… his car was crushed by a bus. no one could identify him until the plate number was broadcast over the radio – because the first people to respond to the scene stole his wallet. Hehehe totally unreal.. you have to admit. that is pretty bad ass. At least we know people know how to survive here eh? We will never run out of stories like that. Everyone pinoy has at least a dozen or more stories other nationalities would hardly be able to believe, they’d think we were joking.

And another thing… BE SCARED WHEN PEOPLE STOP COMPLAINING.. THAT MEANS NO ONE CARES ANYMORE… that’s the time for everyone to abandon all hope… the Philippines doesn’t suck… its a piece of land, a territory, a pretty nice one actually. The politicians don’t suck. WHERE DO THEY COME FROM??? I’m gonna sound like Carlin, but, they come from Filipino homes, Filipino families, Filipino schools and universities, Filipino businesses, and Filipino churches. This is the best we can do folks, this is what we have to offer, its what our nation produces, garbage in – garbage out. ITS THE FILIPINO PUBLIC THAT SUCKS, SO FUCK HOPE. aaahhh felt good to let that out. no need to post it. Just happy to be able to let that hate loose. TRY IT!!! ITS FUN!!!

I AM AUSTRALIAN AND HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR THE PAST 2 YRS OF WHICH 14 MONTHS WAS SPENT IN MANILLA AND 10 MONTHS IN THE PROVINCE I AM MARRIED TO A LOVELY FILIPINO GIRL . HER FAMILY HAVE NEVER ASKED ME FOR 1 PESO AND ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF ME . THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HERE IS CORRUPTION FROM THE TOP DOWN THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT BODIES . A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS WAS WHEN MY WIFE PRIOR TO US GETTING MARRIED APPLIED FOR HER CERTIFICATE OF SINGLENESS THE COST WAS 300P BUT WE WERE TOLD BY THE OFFICIAL IF WE PAID A FIXER 10000P WE COULD HAVE CERTIFICATE TODAY, INSTEAD OF WAITING 10 DAYS. THE ONLY WAY THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY IS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY TO BAND TOGETHER AND CREATE A GOVERNMENT THATS GOING TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE , EG EDUCATION , MEDICAL AND SOCIAL SECURIY NET WORK. MOST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES GO THROUGH MANY NEGATIVE SITUATIONS BUT HISTORY HAS PROVEN THROUGH OUT THE WORLD FOR A COUNTRY TO GO AHEAD, USUALLY A CIVIL WAR PREVAILS, AND IM SURE IN THE NEXT 20 YRS OR SO IT WILL HAPPEN HERE , PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF CORRUPTION , AND LIVING SUB STANDED. MONGOLIA IS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY BUT HAVE SOUGHT THE HELP OF COUNTRIES LIKE AUSTRALIA AND USA TO HELP DEVELOP THERE COUNTRIES AND THERE GOVERNMENT IS GLAD THAT THESE 2 COUNTRIES ARE HELPING THEM PUT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES TOGETHER INCLUDING HIGHRT TAX SYSTM TO CREATE SOCIAL SECURITY NET WORKS AND FREE HOSPITALS FOR ALL THERE PEOPLE, WITH MORE JOBS BEING CREATED DUE TO THERE MINING INDUSTRY BEING DEVELOPED. AS MONGOLIA HAS SIGNED A INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT WITH AUSTRALIA WATCH IN THE NEXT 10 YRS THERE COUNTRY LEAP FROG PHILIPPINES STATUS. UNTIL YOUR GOVERNMENT ALLOWS OTHER MAJOR COUNTRIES TO SOUGHT OUT YOUR CORRUPTION AND PUT IN PLACE PROPER TAX SYSTEMS THAT WILL DEVELOP YOUR COUNTRY, THINGS HERE ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE . THE WORLD TODAY IS GLOBAL BUSSINESS AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR THE WORLD IS SUPPLYING ENOUGH FOOD FOR THE WHOLE WORLD , MAYBE WHEN WHEN YOUR COUNTRY IS STARVING TO DEATH DUE TO BIG HIKES IN GLOBAL FOOD PRICES THE YOUTH OF THIS COUNTRY WILL GET OFF THERE ARSES AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THERE SITUATION RATHER THAN JUST PUTTING UP WITH WHAT THERE GOVERNMENT THROWS AT THEM.

This is obviously a lie. Filipino relatives not asking for money? Try again and stop pretending to be a foreigner next time. The fact that you had to pretend like one to defend your stupid pathetic country is a testament to you Filipinos being blinded by your misplaced nationalism.

There’s nothing wrong pointing out the faults so you can make yourself better. Filipinos selling their votes, being idiots come election time, the women being money-grubbing prostitutes whenever they see whites are all true. Now you can deny all you want and not change OR you can accept these facts as true and try to change them regardless how hurtful it is.

The first step to change is accepting your goddamn faults. The second step is to CHANGE your ways. Until you change, you Filipinos are retards. Live with it.

EDUCATION – We need to use our own language(TAGALOG) in major subjects like Math and Science.. or TAGLISH.. Aminin naten na almost all of us passed these subjects without understanding it clearly.. Maraming matatalinong pinoy kung tagalog lng lhat ng libro.. katulad ng japan.,they use their own language kya bata plang naiintndhan n ang mga malalalim n science.

No one has the right to force people not to insult somebody. That’s why insult never became a legal issue. Feel free to comment everything you want in the internet.

As for me, No, the Philippines don’t suck. Its the people who live here does.
this country needs:
not in order..
1. INTELLECT and INTEREST for Science and Technology
2. INTELLECT and INTEREST for other sciences
3. Honesty
4. Humility
5. Trust
6. the REMOVAL of Filipino TV shows that drives Filipinos stupid (GMA7, etc.) and gay things(there are many to mention).
7. Discipline
8. Blending with the International Society
9. Originality

and actually, stupidity came from the old Filipinos, in 10 to 20 years from now, when those kids from Ph grow, and the old dies.. just wait for the countries success.

I agree with you. All of these things are true and there’s a whole lot more. Filipino’s can’t accept the color of their hair that why they dye it and etc. They also can’t accept THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT THEMSELVES!!!

almost all the shows in the philippines suck and the korean shows are so lame. producers don’t have their own originality in terms of quality shows. they should learn to have their own sense for good shows not copied from others.

Philippines IS poor, over populated, leaders are incompetent, people are undisciplined and some are poorly educated.

BUT I still don’t find them enough to say that this country suck.

And even though you didn’t write those, it’s obvious that you do agree with ’em. It kinda hurt me, it hurt me for 3 reasons: they ARE true, people all over the world are aware of it and lastly you define us by our flaws like none of you have.

Just as much as you want to say that you do not state that all Filipinos are like that, by merely saying “PHILIPPINES SUCK” means you are targeting ALL the people who live there that UNFORTUNATELY, those 18 reasons may not quite apply. Philippines is a country, a land where NOT only FILIPINOS live.

For every awful description you got there against us, there compares great ones (reply if ya ever wanna know). Every country suck and those 18 things (and probably more) obviously aren’t existing only here. Cause I bet many people would also say: “USA sucks because they are SEX addicts, racists, unhygienic, divorce freaks” and many more.

But I won’t say that, simply because I DON’T have the right to. NONE of us had the right to. So let’s just forgive each other and btw, I don’t have anything against anyone, it just happened that I have something I wanted to say.

I’m from South Korea and I realized something that many Filipinos have, it is so much pride for their country. Now don’t get me wrong but I know that Philippines is a Catholic country and having a lot of Christians too, but I find it weird that most of the Filipinos that I know are telling me to “be proud of the Philippines and it’s people” everywhere I go and I heard that ‘Pride’ is one of the deadliest sins… I’m not against Filipinos but I really think they should know themselves a little better… Sorry if I have bad grammar but it’s because it’s only been a year since my parents sent me to the Philippines to study English.🙂

Okay look,
I’m a 13 year old citizen of the Philippines,
but I myself know that all that are stated above are all TRUE.
Every country in this world have their own weaknesses, and frankly we cannot deny that.

But I may say, pointing out the bad things about our country and saying that it ‘sucks’ isn’t helping, at ALL.

And telling us that ‘Philippines sucks’ means that you are generally referring to everyone of us.

We know America is a great country and that it has helped us through times but would you feel okay if someone posted something like this to America? Or even saying that ‘America sucks’? What would you feel about that, huh?

You don’t have the right to insult our country and neither can we with yours. Because we respect you.
But you don’t seem to respect us. Do you?

And by posting this, don’t you think you are degrading your own country for them having a citizen that is insulting another nation but not looking at their own flaws too?

P.S: You do not have the right to say things like this to any countries. If you, yourself don’t know how to lead one.

I totally agree with you! I never heard Filipino bashing others. However, when it come to the Filipino they do not bash them but HUMILIATE them, how helpful its! RIGHT. At the same time, I agree also that there is no such thing as a PERFECT CULTURE or PERFECT COUNTRY! every nation has its flaws. YAH! YOU HEARD IT! no single culture or country is perfect. The country I currently living in have “things going around them too that others won’t never hear” but not an ounce of negative words you will hear from Filipinos. Is that fair for them. I am sure that the one who wrote this crap “the Filipinos didn’t like him” So He/she took revenge and wrote such a lame article and HE CALL THIS AN ARTICLE. LAME.

I hate the fact that many of the Filipinos are so racist, especially here in Dubai where I live. Whenever I visit a shopping mall, I see that they jump on top of each other to please someone with white skin, or someone looking rich, whereas they don’t even say ‘hi’ or smile at anyone with dark skin. At the counter they don’t even tend to make eye contact with non-whites. It’s like they mean to say ‘we are too good for this job’. Whats with this behavior??? I have seen this happen time and again, so much that I expect it to happen every time I visit a public place and see Filipinos around.

They also tend to never mix with other groups, unless it is a girl hooked with another guy. You will see a lot of ‘Apartment sharing’ ads with ‘Only Filipinos’ mentioned on them.

Some, and I have seen very few, seem like nice and polite to everyone. I guess these might be the ‘new arrivals’ who are yet to learn the hating ways of their compatriots.

I’m a Filipino and I’ve been living here in the Philippines my whole life (21 yrs.).
I’ve experienced a lot of things in this country, mostly not good or nice things. Before, I used to think that people in power, people with good looks and intelligence, mild-mannered and kind people are the good guys in the country, you know, but it’s really depressing that even such people are corrupted and demented to their core and are even the source of all the sickening phenomena in the country. It’s an eclipse to see true beautiful, true good people in this country. You’d have to be crazy, to be a martyr, or to be Jesus to want to live here because no matter how good, how remarkable a person you are, you’re still the same kind of being as the ones living here. They will really drag your self-esteem, your credibility, your spirit down rock bottom. It’s a punishment to live here. The only thing you’ll enjoy here is your imagination of not being here. This is coming from a person who’s relatively comfortable in life, who achieved awards from different universities and schools. It’s just so sad to realize that all your achievements in life and hardwork in this country will be in vain and will, no matter what, be looked down by upon by people from a great race. Peace to everyone and may God bless this truly poor country.

Yeah the Philippines make a great contribution to the world but thinking that the Philippines can change EVERYTHING!? I, myself am a Filipino and I think that the Philippines has NO HOPE to rising at all.

The Philippines is “disabled” because we got ruled by 3 countries. We didnt have the firearms or military intelligence to even combat the expedition of magellan. BUT we still was able to revolutionize and free ourselves from the 333 years of spaniards. And then we got ruled by AMERICA and JAPAN. So really our traits and crap is really a minifestation of all the influence you countries mixed into us. But to admit The US is the Phils ally. Why wont people just get along. Wont be long till (even its so unreal)lets say a zombie virus outbreak or alien invasion comes along where its all humans, No race. Also, so what if some pinoys degrade visayans. In the past “Whites” became racists to “blacks”
Education here in private schools kicks american schools’ ass. And yes ive studied in both and the Philippines non-public schools are one of the greatest colleges of epic awesomness such as UP. If you guys just know during the japanese “era” the Filipinos and Americans walked together in the “bataan deathmarch” fought together walked together and died together the us and phils soldiers went. To the Thread maker: Do you know what’s been the Philippines been through? you may have not yet been born when all that shit happened.
The things I agree with you is these things:
POLITICS. Damn those bastards, corrupt Lamborghini hoarders.
TV shows: Cable is OK but the local channels bites ass sometimes.
Phon service/Internet:cant help this much since the Phils is in the equator and is more prone to earthquakes and rain.
PLEASE READ THIS TILL THE END YOU MAY CHANGE YOUR MINDS!
We only have 1 friggin earth. Just goddamn enjoy yourselves till heaven and hell comes.

Yeah.. people here are obviously haters. Well maybe Filipino’s pwned them in their games and got pissed off like little kids. Grow up guys. What he said was right about the 18 reasons. And really? A false guy up there said computers here are 100k?? Lol.. Funny joke.. Computers here costs 7-15k Pesos.. I also wish to go to the states and leave to have a successful life. But doesn’t mean i hate this country. Well these people are just pointing out the bad sides of The Philippines.. How about the good sides? Like bountiful resources, wonderful places.. come on.. You gotta admit we got some awesome wonders here. We are gradually rising.. Obviously like myself. I looked up @ google.com and searched. Does the Philippines sucks? some of you did. We were all looking for answers and some people who were looking for answers thought they were smart and replied here not knowing what he was saying. So i responded a positive response. I know, the philippines isn’t the best country but we are Gradually Getting better each day.

Hey do you have a brain? I bet not much huh; Don’t have punctuation marks. My daughter is 5 and she knows how to use periods,comma’s etc. hehehe PEACE! I’m saying not all Filipinos are. They sure like SEX,that’s what helps their brain more active. Dr. Oz said” people who are active in sex are more likely to have active brain cells. Hehehe

um, i’m not a pinoy .just goggling the fact why my friends from Alaska hated pinoy so much. i just hate why pinoy copied alot drama from others country so much, well yes another country did same to but not so much as pinoy do. anyway bye~

WE ARE ALL PROUD FIL-AM’s
HALF FILIPINO HALF-AMAZING!!!!!, SO WHAT?
YOU WANNA WASTE YOUR TIME AGAIN TRYING TO BRING OUR RACE DOWN? YOU MADE US FEEL, WE HAVE TOWERING HEIGHT… LOL
SO ARE YOU GOING TO THINK OF #23 TO #50? HAHAHAHA
GO AHEAD, AND MAKE US FEEL WE BELONG TO THE UPPER UPPER CLASS, AND LOWER LOWER CLASS TRYING TO BRING US DOWN! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,

“(18) Your leftist groups, like Gabriela, always takes to the streets chanting anti-American slogans! Yet for all you know, the aid coming from America is in millions of dollars helping your economy stand on it’s feet. Ingrates!”

As someone born and raised in the U.S. but who can’t wait to move to a civilized country like Canada I can tell you from intimate knowledge of America that the U.S. never NEVER does anything (including sending foreign aid) unless there is an ulterior motive. Aid from America is NOT a gift. It’s not altruism. It is currying favor with the expectation of gaining something much more valuable on behalf of American big business. Look at what the U.S. is trying to do now: even though it knows it isn’t allowed to base its rotten military in your country anymore it has forces “temporarily” on Jolo and Basilan in the Sulu Sea pretending to be fighting the phony Abu Sayyaf group. Hmmmm… where is the oil in the Philippines? Ah, on Jolo and Basilan in the Sulu Sea. Why is the U.S. prepared to help the Philippines in its claim over the Spratly Islands? Because there is a lake of oil under the seabed in the Spratly Islands and obviously the U.S. is hoping that if it helps secure your country’s claim to it then Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, Conoco-Phillips and the rest of the oil supermajors will get a piece of it.

I realize the Philippines isn’t perfect. I realize it has a ton of problems actually. But take it from a soon-to-be-former American, the United States is easily the most uncivilized, barbaric, uneducated dung heap in the industrialized world. Anybody who you meet who naively says they want to move to America please tell them a few things first. Like the U.S. is a fascist police state where the government can have any citizen assassinated with no trial and no opportunity to legally defend themselves. Its government can tap your phone without a warrant, read your mail before it gets to you, intercept your e-mail, demand your medical records, investigate your library checkouts (doesn’t apply to most Americans as they are the most unread and intellectually lazy wretches the world has ever seen) and place a tracking device on anyone’s car without a warrant. The government can even kidnap any American citizen in the middle of the night after designating them an “enemy combatant” based on hearsay or a whim, drug them up, torture them and keep them in a dog kennel in 110-degree heat in Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.

You complain that a Filipino’s vote can be bought. Here that isn’t a problem but not for any good reason. Here in America it’s not a problem because it doesn’t matter who anyone votes for or frankly who wins any election because before anyone gets a chance to vote ALL the candidates they can choose between are already 100% owned by the small elite class of billionaires that REALLY governs America. Any American politician, whether Obama, Bush, Mitt Romney, whoever, are nothing but puppets of the wealthy class. Most people in America are living from paycheck to paycheck, just barely scraping by. Many live on the streets. The homeless shelters are overflowing. 25% of America’s children go to bed hungry at night. The only ones who benefit from living in America are the rich. Everyone else gets varying degrees of exploitation. If this situation sounds familiar to you, if this sounds a little like the Philippines it’s no accident. The problem is capitalism itself. It is a horrid, selfish, satanic economic model that makes the uppermost 2% or 3% of a country’s population so rich they have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes with the consequence of putting everyone else on a spectrum of exploitation from the underpaid secretary to the cashier getting paid a wage that everyone from she herself to her boss to the president of the U.S. knows isn’t enough for anyone to live on in America. Capitalism sucks. Until it is smashed into a million pieces never again to be reassembled, until it is replaced with proletarian socialism, worker ownership of the means of production, true direct democracy, then we as non-wealthy people will NEVER BE FREE. We will always be slaves until our future is in our own hands.

The Philippines, and the world at large, have a bright, beautiful future ahead of them. That future just doesn’t in any way involve capitalism.

This same 18 shit exists in all countries. Where do you think the “bollywood” word came from. Judging from these sentences, you probably haven`t lived outside the Philippines. Corruption and gossip even exists in Japan, slavery in the US and vote buying in Europe. The only difference is the methods that these countries use. I`m a Filipino and I have lived from the richest to the poorest countries the world can offer and there is no damn difference.

As an educated Filipina currently working in a multinational corporation, the only thing that deeply disturbs me about the Philippines is the seething injustice that employees who work for privately owned Chinese companies go through! I’m sorry if it sounds like a racist and generalized statement, but it is a well known fact that the typically Chinese family-owned business model cares little about the well-being of its employees and views them as dispensable commodities – because they know that everyone in this country needs a job! Treat your employees well and with a little HUMANITY, for the love of God! To the Sy family: ang YAMAN YAMAN ninyo but you work your employees like dogs and expect them to be grateful!

After meeting with my father whom I haven’t seen for 26 years at a meeting point in makati, he has the NERVE to ask me for money. He wanted that money so he can help pay off his car? his house? his child support with some other young filipino broad? his debt? NOT ONLY did he ask me for money my half brothers and sisters did as well. The country has an overabundant amount of corruption , crime, terrorism, and poverty. Give me a break, I don’t hate the country, but I most certainly can’t bring up enough facts to wanna have a great amount of pride in the country. Philippines will never be able to get back on its feet. Manny Pacquiao certainly won’t help with that.

Most of the points, to very much all of them, plus others, has a since of truth in them.

The country in general, the Philippines is a great place to live but when we have to face NEGLIGENT workers, especially the government, it makes Filipinos want to become OFW and the foreigners just to go back home because the constitution, despite how good it is, it is never properly played out through those in government…i honestly have never seen such laziness as I have seen here in the Philippines government offices where they use the word “entertain” instead of “assist” in their vocabulary.

Another thing I greatly dislike, here in the Philippines, are the “official receipts” we receive in the government related offices which operates more like a business than an act of service to the people as the Constitution promises…I have been over charged on many many occasions and all they would say is “you have a receipt” but when i showed a receipt from another government office, who was just like theirs, being charged for the same thing the prices were less and when the officers asked for me to show the receipts he confessed in the Ombudsman that his worker overcharged me and said “it wont ever happen again” and he refused to return to money that was overcharged.

They behave like kings, or rulers, instead of knowing that when they first stepped foot into a government office they knew very well it was an act of service they were to give to the people but instead they want to be served.

The government offices are so so negligent and ignores our constitutional rights.

It is high time for the Filipinos to become less passive and more whistle blowers so our government workers will realize that to work in such as place is an act of service to the people and not to be their bosses or some business making money.

So, as Noynoy shared, after the Ombudsman was demanded to step down and Gloria has stepped out of office:

“With the support of the public, we can now proceed more decisively in making government officials more accountable to their bosses: the Filipino people,”

Mr. Aquino mentioned teachers, policemen, soldiers and simple taxi drivers as among the ordinary Filipinos who had joined him in walking “the straight and righteous path.”

“To the Filipino nation, my Bosses who have steered us toward this day: Thank you very much for the change that is now upon us. The Filipino people are, finally, truly alive,” Mr. Aquino said.

After ticking off what he said were his administration’s accomplishments, Mr. Aquino taunted his critics who had accused him of singling out former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and officials under her by filing plunder and other charges against them.

“Some of my critics say that I take this campaign against corruption personally. It’s true: Doing what’s right is personal. Making people accountable—whoever they may be—is personal,” he said.

“It should be personal for all of us, because we have all been victimized by corruption.”

Lala land is what most filipinos like to hear all the time even if the outside world already sees us badly. Take for example- what the is it with our women working overseas as maids in Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Singapore…while the men stay at home being immobile as hell? Why do I hear many filipinos insulting others who tell the truth as it is? Who don’t buy the nonsensical, shallow society and who don’t smile for fakeness’ sakes? Why can’t everyone just accept that we are very flawed and they need to be worked on? Kudos to the author for being the no-nonsense and straightforward person that I wish all filipinos emulate.

The Philippines is a really great country but the problem is/are the people who give very negative comments about it.
THE one who posted these reasons do you have a mind? it looks as if that you live in a very perfect country. Could you get any THICKER?

I didn’t read all the comments on here because there are so many, but I’d like to say some things. Full disclosure, I’m American. I’ve been living in the Philippines for about 4 years and own a small business here. Filipinos tend to get VERY upset when people say bad things about their country and culture, regardless of if the negative comments have any truth to them or not. It also doesn’t seem to matter if the comments come from a fellow Filipino or a foreigner, most Filipinos get angry and seem to be in denial about the problems in their country.

An obvious reason this happens is because no one likes to be insulted. But another reason I think it happens frequently is, every time I see something negative like this on the Internet, the way it’s written seems to imply that these negative characteristics apply to ALL Filipinos.

Filipinos need to realize that very few people would believe that any negative aspect of Filipino society applies to everyone in the country. They just don’t SAY that it doesn’t apply to everyone. They make generalizations. The way Filipinos should think of these kinds of negative comments is, “Why is this person saying this?” Mostly, I see Filipinos saying it’s because the person is hateful, or racist. (By the way, Filipino is NOT a race. It’s a nationality. Your RACE is Asian. So unless the insults are being flung at Japan and China too, you can’t call the person a racist….)

But the real reason people say these bad things is this: The bad thing they are complaining about EXISTS.

Now, do bad behaviors and social problems exist in every country? YES. OF COURSE. In fact, nearly ANY problem you can point out about the Philippines ALSO EXISTS IN THE USA. The difference is in how COMMON the problem or bad behavior is. Rude behavior that I may have either NEVER experienced in the US or only experienced 1 or 2 times in decades living there has happened to me repeatedly here.

Some of the problems happen because of poverty. WORLDWIDE, poorer countries have higher murder, rape, and other violent crime rates than richer countries. There are lots of reasons for this. But it is NOT an insult to Filipinos to point this out. Nor is it an insult to poor people. It’s not that Filpinos are “bad” or that poor people are “bad”. It’s simply that if you have no money, you do desperate things.

People with more money only act better because they have more to lose by committing crimes. They have more to protect so they don’t want to risk it by doing something bad. A good person can do bad things if they are hungry, or homeless, or treated like shit by people around them.

Filipinos get mad at Americans for insulting their country, but you know what? We insult OUR OWN country a lot too. To the American way of thinking, pointing out the flaws of our country is the only way to DO something about them. You can’t fix something if you aren’t willing to face it!

It’s true that some foreigners are just assholes and insulting the Philippines to be rude. But most who live here or have lived here do so out of frustration and a desire to see things CHANGE. It’s not about making Filipinos like US, just about getting things to be BETTER. Look at Japan. Japan is a very different culture than the USA. But Japan and the Japanese people have the respect of the world. Even though their different than Americans, we recognize that there are things about their culture and the way they do things that are better than in the US. Filipino culture can be unique but still be great. Right now, it is unique, but has so many problems that it boggles the mind.

I’ll just close by saying this to any Filipino reading this: From now on, when you see someone writing bad things about the Philippines or Filipinos, try not to be mad or insulted about it. Ask yourself if there is ANY truth to what the person is saying and realize that even if what the person is saying isn’t true about YOU, it’s likely true about some people in your country.

The Philippines as so much potential and Filipinos do too. That’s the thing that frustrates me more than anything….that this could be an incredible place to live but it isn’t. Filipinos have some great traits (although probably not the ones that everyone repeats all the time). But truly the BIGGEST problems here are apathy and an inability to face the truth.

Good luck to all Filipinos. I hope the people in this country can improve their lives.

definitely agree with everything you mentioned… since you mentioned about poverty, in many ways, somehow poverty breeds envy and denial that the simplest form of observation turns out to be “crab mentality” when it can looked at in a different perspective —- somehow in general, filipinos tend to be less optimistic when thrown with a few words.

You forgot how they pretty much act like sore losers when our representatives fall short of winning stupid beauty pageants like the Ms Universe and Ms World and Ms whatever random fucking galaxy out there. It’s just as pathetic when they say shit like “I’m proud of Ms Philippines for making it to the top five” as though Ms Philippines made it to the top five for any other reason than stupid Filipinos who voted her there even if she did not deserve it. Seriously. A lot of them mistake patriotism for their blind biases so much it’s embarrassing to even point it out.

either true or not each country has advantage and disadvantage some is good some are bad the important is we respect and adjust to the environment. Aside from the list reason that Philippines not progressive is because of crab mentality the rich will become more rich the poor will become more poor, also corruption still exist , different language to be used not liked japan only one dialect they used, poverty, population, and many island luzon,visayas and mindanao each has different characteristic.

you forgot the fact that they cant afford cars, they live in slums, the neighbor hood beaches are filthy, they dump trash in the ocean, they dont have air conditioners, its too crowded, and they are way to skeptical.

I am a Filipino and I AGREE on this blog article. The Philippines is a really nice country. It’s a paradise but became a HELL because of my countrymen. I REALLY HATE the people of this country and I am ASHAMED to be a Filipino. Filipinos are damn greedy, full of pride, “Little Brown Americans” and fucking immoral. The Philippines is the only CHRISTIAN country in Asia but also the most SINFUL.

at #3 common Filipinas always have a plan devised when she marries a WHITE/FOREIGNER
Step 1: Seduce him
Step 2: Gain his trust and reside in California (favorite Filipino breeding place)
Step 3: Whole clan of Filipina will ALL depend on the white/foreigner
Step 4: “The Filipino Dream” completed. Abroad. Rich and Abundant. Happily ever after, poor white
*based on what i have seen on my relatives and acquaintances

You’re a damn Korean. Tell your fellow koreans to go back in korea and leave Philippines at once! If you’re going to say bad things about us Filipinos then I do have a lot of bad things to say to you and your fellow koreans. WHY ARE YOUR FELLOW KOREANS STAYING HERE WHEN YOU GUYS ARE JUST GONNA BAD MOUTH US?!?! GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY! You guys have your own bad manners and attitude! Some of my fellow Filipinos are teaching english to your fellow koreans!

Philippines sucks. The people are in killing spree, why? Because the justice system is loose. Just try to watching TV patrol and most of the headlines are about murders, serial killings, rapes, robbery.

The Philippines Justice System is too loose, President Noynoy aquino is too busy playing Skyrim.

I am a Filipina and I love my country.
I love to say that this blog/article is so damn true.
I hate Manila (Capital of the Philippines) coz its so damn dirty, Filipinos don’t have the so called for their country. Gotta pause on this one. NOT ALL FILIPINOS. Some Of us Filipinos volunteers for the clean and green projects, Like planting trees, Cleaning the thrashes on the beach and so on. We have ENVIRONMENTALIST here, like myself. But the problem is EDUCATION, our government doesn’t care about this, but when the former president FERDINAND MARCOS was still alive, things wasn’t the same. HE WAS A TRUE VISIONARY. And I do believe that what the PHILIPPINES needs is a president like him, and I would like for his son to run for president in the next election coz in some ways they both have the same view.

But I would like to say a few things…. FUCK THIS! why are you foreign people always and always badmouthing us Filipinos??? ARE YOU FREAKING INSANE!!?? There is no such thing as a perfect country! every damn country has their own faults! weaknesses! Yes this country (Philippines) is a total shit but at least the people here are very much welcoming.

WHEN YOU’RE KIND TO A FILIPINO (especially an artist) THEY WILL WELCOME YOU WHOLE HEARTEDLY. But if you’re shit to the Filipinos they won’t give a damn about you, just like Micheal Jackson.. People thought that he will have a full house back when he did his first ever concert here, but guess what? It was the opposite.

And hey! I have a few amerian friends and they said that they would want a FILIPINA AS THEIR WIFE. Reason: Coz They’re loving and Caring.
Fuck THIS! the way that is said makes it look like Filipinas are easy to get.. THERE ARE LOTS OF SLUTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES TOO!! THE WORLD SO DAMN BIG!!!!!!!!

To the Koreans.. If you’re going to say bad things about Filipinos and the Philippines.. THEN JUST GET OUTTA HERE!!!! GO TO YOUR GODDAMN COUNTRY! LEAVE HERE NOW! THE SOONER THE BETTER!! Your country is very much clean and so on, THEN GO BACK THERE! but some of your customs SUCKS!!!!

Yes Philippines is dead freaking bad country. The government is corrupt, Filipinos don’t love these forsaken country. WE’RE NOT THE WORST COUNTRY IN THESE GODDAMN PLANET CALLED EARTH!!! HAVE YOU PEOPLE BEEN IN ALL OF THE COUNTRIES AND MET ALL OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CUSTOMS AND SO ON? and if you cant stand a FILIPINO, DON’T MEET ONE! DON’T GO HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES! And if you’re a Filipino who is ashamed of being one, then get out of here, you’re also ashamed of your family and friends and people like you guys are the reason why we can’t get any better even if its just a step!

agree on this… somehow i think, the filipinos in general do not deserve a democratic lifestyle… most cannot follow a simple rule… most haven’t outgrown the dictatorship period… kelangan pa takutin para sumunod sa simpleng mga panuntunan

In a global age like ours with 9 million Pinoys living in other countries and many foreign people living in the Philippines we are all witnessing a huge population shift. It is only natural that when people go to new places, they will have hard time adjusting and will vent, It is called culture shock. So many times I have heard Pinoys badmouth Arabs, Thais, Kano, Bumbay etc. So what? Let people talk. This is how we will know each other and each others’ faults and improve. And remember Freedom of Speech is a fundamental Filipino and American right and many countrie’s rights. So, a Pinoy in the US has a full right to say anything he wants about the Kano and the same with the Kano or anyone else in the Philippines.
And it is not always- oh, you don’t like it, get out! Some people have invested heavily and have businesses there. So, how can one just get out? Same with Pinoys in Arab countries. They often owe money or have families to feed. You can’t just get out.
So, can we all chill out and accept freedom of speech and talk like human beings? Instead of constantly “get out, go back, etc”? Some people also have no money for a ticket to go back.

Ummmm….any filipino who worships an asshole who in the first place made this country go bankrupt should get schooled in politics AND history that the problem we mainly have are actually the old rich families who have taken hold of power, steal the people’s money and never give any good in return ie. infrastructure, education and healthcare. It may seem to you that Marcos is a saint. Ain’t he saintly that he robbed my grandparents’ money and placed it all in the a Swiss bank? Why? And he’s also saintly that he kept begging the U.S. like a callous whore for so called ‘funds’- and compounded national debt which should never would have occurred had he been honest with his hands. And why would good ol’ Marcos declare martial law- an irrational and selfish move? Were there anarchists and Communists weilding guns and wreaking havoc to warrant such a law? And after a 20 year ‘monarchical’ rule didn’t saint Marcos abandon the country almost dried up and apparently floundering? And then hand assed all the already existing problem (kinda like how Bush handed all the shit t o Obama and make him take the blame) to someone who’s not even strong enough to stand against other vipers who take advantage over her weak position? I can never understand the filipino psyche. They either want an asshole who acts smart in front of people but is actually raking in all our money in secret or a pathetic harmless fool who is not even up for the job (Noynoy). All our politicians are of the same mould since the elites too k over after 300 years of being Spain’s whorehous. These same scum incest each other their arrogance and stupidity – even worse than king Louis IV and czar Nicholas II combined. Now, I don’t want to scorn you because you hold such a naive view of things but please educate yourself more ithout your biases and. .go back over the history on how this nation was built on. It should open your eyes you can’t tell them apart in their leadership – be it Aguinaldo Quezon Marcos arroyo or Aquino. Cheers.

Never have i come across such a pathetic bunch of people as in the Philippines… and im not talking off my mouth.. ive been and visited places across the world and this has to be the mightiest shit hole existing on this planet…. I mean the whole nation is dumb as if its an epidemic… rite from Noy Noy to the taxi drivers whos math is as follows… 100 – 70 = 10 (thats the change you get for a fare of 70 if u pay 100 bucks) …. Work..!! now thats something a pinoy probably wont understand….. lazy bumbags just wanna get free money.No wonder companies here need Indians to run companies and multinationals here… If you ask for the right change from a taxi ur labelled stingy, if u refuse to loan a pinoy parasite u are labelled stingy… Philippines is truly the brothel of the world..!

Hahah… its hilarious to see some dimwits wearing tshirts like ‘Pinoy Pride’ … ‘100% Pinay”… proud about what assholes??? heres a list i can think of that u may be proud of…
1) U dont know whos ur father? (Papa americano is hence ur fav no.😉
2)More than half the country is populated due to unwanted pregnancies
3)Ur mom and sis are both pregnant at the same time😉🙂
4)Filipinas are universal sluts…use and throw just like condoms..!
5)half the men in the country are gay
6)You are so poor u need to eat rice without any curry.. hahaha u fuckers even have a RICE ALLOWANCE in your payslips..!
this list can go on…………………………….. screw u.. screw ur country… Ur just a pathetic bunch of sorry asses who can suck foreign dicks for 5 pesos…sorry make that 1 peso..!!

I’m a Filipino who has lived in the US. All 18 mentioned are damn right. I am so disgusted by many Filipinos also. What I love about the American people is they are more straightforward, honest, polite in a real sense (not the filipinos’ superficial politeness of using ate, kuya, po and opo but cuts you off in a line) and they most of the time try hard to provide a good service.

Here’s why I don’t like the Filipinos:
1. So ungrateful. You give them a thousand pesos and talks behind your back that it isn’t much.
2. Lazy and are self-entitled. They expect to be served by someone in the family who is either an OFW or is doing better in life.
3. Housewives gossip a lot. Instead of helping their husbands earn some income during free time, a lot of filipino women gossip and talk bad about their neighbors.
4. Envious of their neighbors success and talk bad.
5. They always think of how to take advantage of you—-corruption is from regular people to higher officials.
6. Shallow and dumb. Instead of watching and promoting shows to make the people intelligent, they patronize highly dramatic soap operas or cheap and corny variety shows.
6. They STARE.
7. They want a free ride on the success of other people.
8. More to come…

We can trace a lot of our negative aspects to the occupation of the various foreign powers that colonized our country. I feel especially annoyed with our television programs. Instead of watching the shows my relatives normally watch, it’s either National Geographic or Discovery Channel for me!

Very well, then. In that case you should have common sense and hard work ethics as the Americans. You should be disciplined like the Japanese and also thrifty like they are. You should have great arts and music, intellectualism and architecture as the Spaniards. And you should you be organized as the British who occupied Manila as well.

Biggest liabilitity is its people. Poverty of the mind— we are a nation of dim wits, morons. And the intelligent ones are corrupt, unpatriotic, have vested political interests, to top that, the crab mentality -Filipinos hate to see other Filipinos get ahead. That’s why most Filipinos are poor. We have to rely on the country’s natural beauty (God made) to entice foreigners to visit. The way they manage corporations is thru Padrino system, “sipsip”, they can’t handle intelligent and talented employees, they feel threatened instead of seeing them as potential resource. thus the brain drain. The mainstream media fosters the idiocy of the masses.

No, it’s a FAST FOOD CHAIN…
You know what? Restaurants in Europe have Filipino chefs.
The Burj Al Arab, the seven star hotel in Dubai, have many Filipino crews (and not just cleaners or maids,most of them are Indians).
The Head Chef in the White House is a Half-Pinay.

Filipinos have a far better taste and more discriminatory in food than Americans. Being a biodiversed tropical agricultural country, there’s plenty of regional cuisine that are undiscovered and not commercialized. Filipino farmers are eating freshly catched food and their ingredients are local. Canned foods, processed food for mass production, and Jollibee is a filipino counterpart influenced by McDonalds and by Western ways of food consumption. So don’t put down on Filipno gastronomy. Americans should just look at themselves in the mirror and see the epidemic of obesity, heart diseas and cancers. Sadly, Filipinos are caught up on anything that’s Western including the not so good.

taste only for food that is picked fresh, especially amonng farmers. They discriminate from what’s fresh and not. I’ve lived among farmers for at least a month for a sociological field study, and I know how they eat. They drink and sanitize milk they themselves get from their cows. They kill only free range chickens they breed themselves. Including pigs, ducks. Here, i’m taking about the average rice farmer. No wonder they’re food even if simple are tastier.

I’m a Filipino and I believe about the things you wrote there especially about the controversies of the nurse exam , the corruption , the people who were asking for alms, Filipinos who marries Caucasians , the vote can be bought by php 50, the debt ‘thingy’, their broken English and etc. However you don’t have the right to judge us and dare to discriminate our race because not all of us are like that. REMEMBER we are a developing country so you can’t expect us to act like the people in your country whoever wrote this. But in reality I don’t know if this could get any worse than what you said cause a lot in the government today are corrupt.

Caucasians like Asians like Filipina because they have strong family values, more traditionally feminine, compared to the modern, inddependent and feminist streak of caucasian women. You can’t fault Caucasian men for their preference for Asians. Filipinas who like Caucasian men compared to Filipinos do so because Caucasians share in household chores, they can take care of themselves and are no mama’s boys, many are educated. Many Filipino men are faulted for being low educated, low lifes, have false machismo, mama’s boys, bad manners. Look at our police, politicians, even corporate professionals who can rise because of corruption, padrino system, crab mentality, and trapos (traditional politics). So you cant fault Filipinas if they prefer Caucasians. Apart from the fact the Filipno men are generally not attracctive.

Well to the person who wrote this
I have no doubt that this is true . Maybe our country is just as ugly as that but we are not so low like you think, we have respect so I won’t say anything bad about you. We maybe that abusive but we have our good traits .

How long have been this blog here? Thanks anyway even if some of those did not came from you. I can use this and some of the replies here to enliven the Filipino spirit and hopeful that we can better improve and contribute good things to the world. I am searching how and where these bad traits got from.

How I got here? Well, I am searching how other countries looks upon the Philippine Islands. How much interest they have from this country. There is an American study that said Philippines is the modern colony of the United States of America from World War II. Radical communist influenced by China was also used to overthrown a government with efforts to self-start Philippines as a nation. Philippines is an ally of utmost importance to American interest. US succeeded and the education is used to make the Filipino ignorant and that largely contributed to the bad traits of the Filipino you specified on this blog.

Hi, I’m a Filipino, but I admit that I’ve seen/heard all of those in the list (often).
Most of the things included in the list are just subsets of much serious problems.
Allow me to summarize:

* Poverty:
List #1, #2, #3, #5, #11, and #14 all implies poverty and shows how poor people in our country will do everything for the sake of money. It’s not that Filipinos love money, it’s just that it’s really a need in order to survive.

* Social Climbing:
List #3 and #9 are all about social climbers. They do things to make them noticeable (e.g., “IN” current trend, famous) and it’s a typical idea to attach ones’ self from the achievements of others (esp. famous personalities). This often leads or continues to poverty, for the reason that they tend to buy expensive stuff to ‘show off’ than to save and invest their money to something more profitable like business.

* Opportunist:
List #4, #5, and #14 deals about opportunistic people. This is using the brain (in a wrong way) to take advantage of something (e.g., good and/or decent people). Opportunist are in a sense, called parasites, they don’t care if you’re suffering, so long as they benefit from you.

* Inescapably Obligation (Utang na loob):
List #6 is about unescapable/inescapably obligation. It’s a mentality that it’s as if you’re obliged to help the person throughout his/her life. It’s becomes much worse when you owe the person something which will be harder for you to reject his/her request.

* Irresponsibility:
#List #7 is irresponsibility. They are good at asking/requesting things they want to have but they are not really responsible enough to pay the debt. The simple reason this happens is due to the fact that they buy and/or prioritize unnecessary things then put the ‘real’ priority/responsibility at the bottom. The evidence is clear, go outside, and you will see people going to expensive places, buying expensive things, wearing expensive things, as if it reflects what really is in their pocket.

* Corruption:
List #12 and #13 are corruption. We ourselves (Filipinos) are really tired of hearing corruption all our lives. But it’s rampant (who can stop it?). Corruption is everywhere, From small: Sari-sari store, Transportation (Bus, Taxi, Tricycle), to big: Police Stations, Hospitals, High Ways (Roads), etc. Politicians will kill for positions, Hospitals can choose who they want to hire (even if incompetent), Government can hire who they want to hire (even if incompetent). That’s how disgusting this country is. Full of incompetent and corrupt people enjoying the blood and sweat of honest and hard-working people. This is the primary reason why the country is in so much poverty (even after the fact that we have much more natural resources than other countries).

* No Originality:
List #8 and #10 comes from having no originality. I’ve been watching TV since I was a kid and it bored me to see the same theme/concept again and again. I stopeed watching TV since college, it’s just a waste of time and electricity. What does these ‘un’creative writers portray? Murder, Hatred, Revenge, Stealing, teh Poor vs. teh Rich, Rich are evil, Poor are weak, Good are deprived, Wealth and fame are the source of success, etc. These very stories affect the attitude of Filipinos in the country—making them worse than ever.

* Racism:
List #15 and #17 are abour racism. This is everywhere not just in the Philippines. It happens when you think your culture/country is superior than the other. For example, Koreans call the Philippines as country of monkeys, yet they rely heavily on Philippine Teachers (ELS) to learn english. The problem is, Filipinos love to criticize their fellow citizen, but they hardly accept criticism to improve themselves.

* Educational System:
List #16 is about the country’s lack of proper education or very old and rusty educational system. The education in our country is old yet expensive, even in public schools. Next thing you’ll know, you’ll enter college with a much higher tuition fees, and a lot more requirements, like projects, tours, events, and parties? Also a mouthful of unnecessary subjects you wouldn’t even use on real world. Deans and Intructors think you are so rich that you can re-print a full thesis book when a single line of mistake on a page occurs. The final thing you’ll realize is that after you got your bachelor’s degree (graduate), you’ll work as a call center agent.

* Communism:
List #18 is purely communism. Have you not noticed? When it’s chinese working, Gabriela and the likes are silent and doesn’t show on TV. But when there’s something that Americans do in the Philippines (even just a visit or alliance to help the country), they are all in rage then dug a lot of historical nonsense they never even experienced themselves. If they’re so concerned in the past, why don’t they also bash Spain and Japan? And if they are really concerned in our country, why don’t they try to stop China?
I suggest anyone to watch this: You can watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VikoHKuEzng

I live in the Philippines and I am a living proof of these sad truths.
The Philippines is full of Liars, Sloth, Hypocrites, and Prideful people.
The government can never help us, never; all we can do is to do something to help ourselves.

Just shut up and leave this country if you graduated a degree in college.. go somewhere around the globe except in america because others might think that you’re getting along with the whites… just go somewhere with no whites like singapore and go work or even better, migrate there!!!!! or if you ever go to the U.S. don’t be ashamed of claiming that you are an asian… there’s no problem with that at all as long as you’re being true to yourself…if you really hate living here.. go somewhere else.. Philippines doesn’t care if you’re helping the country itself from the corruption.. it’s the government problem now so live your life outside the philippines if you want it! no problem

i been living in phil for last 30 years and every year things gets worse. The people are really bad. Most of them have no education and same time they are mean. Uncivilized. They never admit any faults and always blaming others for misfortune. Probably the only southeast asia country that is regressing due to their uncivilized manner. Attitude and culture is hard to change i dont see things getting better here.

I fully support this as being true. The Philippines is the worst country to live in (and I’m saying that despite being in UP!) in Asia. We have the weakest military, the worst education, the worst of everything. I have no love for a country that constantly got colonized and remains so to this day.

I long for that day when I can finally go abroad to better places than the Philippines. I hate it. I hate the Philippines so bad that sometimes I wish it would sink beneath the waves (but only when I’m really, really angry at the state of the nation). When I leave the country, I will have every memory of it obliterated from my head.

one thing that i hate about pinas is the multiplication of squatters. and yet the politicians retain them for the sake of helping them win the elections.
no matter how many presidents came and finished their term in our country, they’re just always there and kept populating.

Nein, you shut the fuck up, arschloch! This country ist Scheisse, scum and shit of the world! It should be nuked to the bedrock and its dummkopfe inhabitants should be released into the Amazon like the primitive monkeys they are (after the wiser ones smart enough to know better get out of this hell on earth)! Schwachsinnige hirnlose Scheisskopf! Hau ab!

GOD! Half the people here are so blind. Your comments are just proving the guys point. Sheesh… think before you write dudes, you’re just proving that the guy is right. ALL CAPS RAGE, direct racist remarks, blaming others, those are examples that prove the author’s point. You’d have to be half blind not to notice our cultural hang-ups, our oftentimes incivility, and our bad habits. Stop defending what’s wrong and start doing something about. It’s one reason why we aren’t as advanced as other nations.

Filipinos are too hard on themselves. It is the best country in SE Asia with the best people. At least the people in PH have souls. All the others around you are robotic and almost inhuman. Don’ be like the Thai or the Taiwanese. Cold people with no hearts. Who cares if they have more money?
And you have the prettiest girls in Asia.
The other problems listed- well you can fix those. A lot of that is because u are still stuck in the agricultural frame of mind but are in the industrial and information age now. Many countries are just like you. Saw the same attitudes in Thailand, in Mexico, etc. Still a farmer in the mind, but living in the city now.
My only gripe with the Philippines is that you do not promote your own culture enough and your own music. I am tired of going to a club and seeing you acting like Americans from 1950ies. And all these oldies you are playing and most in English. I want to hear Filipino songs and see Filipino culture. And so does most of the world. And having been colonized in no excuse. The VNese, the Cambodians, the Laotians have also been colonized but they sing their songs and promote their culture. Long live OPM! Long live Philippine culture!

I can’t get over the fact that many of my filipino in-laws leave obvious specks of food on my dishes after “washing” them, don’t wash their hands after taking a crap in the bathroom, throw toilet paper with poop into the trash can for everyone to smell instead of flushing it down the toilet, are always in financial trouble because they never set aside anything for savings.

Many of them seem to be very short-sighted. Another example is the fact that many of the flood victims in Pampanga you saw not too long ago being forced to sit on their roofs waiting to be rescued from what was caused by the typhoon are the very same ones who always throw their trash down the storm drains. Their country is messed up because of corruption as well…but much of it the people have done to themselves, and the stupid thing is, they keep doing the same things over and over again as if they are expecting different results.

Flips suck major ass. A bunch of poor, lying, begging, stealing, dishonest, raping, ignorant, ladyboy loving, pedophilic, dirty, smelly, uneducated (not the same as ignorant), scum covered peasants. It’s astonishing how many pinoy/pinay are here acknowledging how much the philippines/it’s people, suck duck balls. Go ahead and hate on what I am saying, I stumbled onto this site by accident, didn’t add it as a favorite, so I won’t be returning. Nothing you say has any meaning if you wanna try to prove me wrong. Good fucking luck by the way…I have been to Cebu, Pampanga, Corabao (right spelling?), Manilla and other places as a part of my work, which sends me all over the world for the most part. I have never seen a country with more dirty, stinky liars, cheaters, sex crazed, poverty stricken jackasses, like I see on my travels in the Philippines. Women asking me in broad day light, in the middle of a crowded mall, “Would you please let me have your baby?” Why? so you and your 4 million relatives can leech off me? Fuck you. I was at circle summit mall in Cebu, when a woman walked over to me with her 13 year old niece. She admitted to having been observing me for around 20 minutes, when finally deciding to offer the girl to me “for long time, all night.” She informed me how well the girls “skill” was, and that I could have her for 50 dollars. She would sell her own underaged relative for a mere 50 bucks….I declined and finished my meal in the food court. After my meal, I spoke to my boss…his sister in law is from Manila. He CONSTANTLY telle me how much he hates the people there in general, and that he has had women on NUMEROUS occasions either offer themselves, or an underaged relative, even their own daughters on occasion. Computer cafes with fucking dirt floors? Seriously?? And 60% of the people in these cafes are philippine women, using lies and deception (is that a surprise), to scam men in other countries who in many cases are looking for love, out of there money. Then they can divide it among their 900000 cousins, aunts and uncles, who ALWAYS seem to have a leaky roof, or need medicine, or need glasses, or need to travel but can’t afford a ticket. Having listened to his stories, and visited that shit hole, I have seen it all. Fortunately, I have not been the victim of any flip bullshit, and did internet research when I did actually meet a girl their once I liked. My research set off MANY red flags…go figure…every single warning was right. A list of 25 things ranging from the 1st date, to a possible wedding…all of it was correct (except the wedding, no fucking was I would be stuck to her flip ass). But all the warning signs were present. Even saying she “loved” me, after only 2 months of dating. Bullshit…total bullshit…and even if that were true, as a couple dating, where the fuck does her family get off trying to hit me up for money? I told them politely to fuck themselves. Naturally when they saw I wasen’t about to become their personal bank of free loans, the relationship “fell apart.” I have dated all over the place, and the flip women, flip people, flip country in general: SUCKS ASS. Go on philippine people, make excuses for that shit heap of a country, and try to bad mouth me…but you know deep inside your dirty, poor, lying and possibly ladyboy ass….that your and your country suck. Deal with it…stop making excuses. “We are a great people, we arent all like that,” bla bla bla. You people fucking suck. Embrace it, because its not changing anytime soon. My company is actually having a conference in 3 weeks to decide which contracts and clients are most “viable.” Guess which country 2 of my supervisors have said and I quote, “are pretty useless,” ? Yeah…you people fucking suck.

1. they are soo courteous! but wait, look at their personality!
2. if youre 18 yrs old, you’ll live your own!
3. there are lots of satanists
4. they have pretty bad accents
5. their presidents sucks and cant even improve their place
6. during dinner time, they dont laugh, they dont talk, they dont have fun with their parents!
7. they dont go to church often, they are couch potatoes eating chips… LOL!!
8. their faces sucks
9. the freckles of americans are stupid
10. their beers aren’t cold. HAHAHAHAHAH! who the fuck wants hot beer!!???

additional: they can easily fool and they’re so “manyakis”, invading the dating online sites and just asking for a one night stand without knowing that person if clean or not.

they’re weird living alone for the rest of their lives, and i have talked some of them have disorders like Coprophilic. they have a lot of what they called “fetishes”. some of them engaging in incest, white american are really sick!

English is bad, poor grammar! they couldn’t commit into relationship because they’re always looking for a sex satisfaction. most of them are cheaters specially those married men, if their wives couldn’t satisfy them, they’ll go to online sites and will look for someone to have “booty” with. LOL

english is bad. grammar is poor…..read your own shit….you have to be joking pinoy…amazing how filipino think their english is good…even educated…yet pick up any national english newspaper and if you are an english native speaker with an education it grates and makes one cringe to read….tortured english is pinoy specialty…like adobo…you think its great but the rest of the world thinks its crap

Filipinas like many Asians are so extremely abusive and rarely welcomes newcomers who don’t behaved like them or their sorts.. They talked extremely loudly and tried to make us newcomers who are timid and who only interested in our work feel uneasy incompetent through their ever watch ful evil filipinos asian eyes. they are just another type of asian bullies. those filipinos tend to tell untrue tales about any newcomers that they don’t like. I hate being appoached by any filipinos, chinese, moslems or other asians who treat us or other people badly.

One reason the ]Philippines sucks is all the queers.There everywhere. There on television and you see them all over the place. There sickening to even look at. This place isis trashy enough without a bunch of queers walking around and acting like a bunch of idiots. No wonder the women there marry men from other countries.

Many Filipino men (although I don’t want to generalize) are queer, pathetic low life…a symptom either of their idiocy, mediocrity, fatalism or sense of hopelessness. They are incapable of truly looking at themselves in the mirror and ask what’s wrong with them.

Even though I’m a Filipino I tried to distant my self from Filipino mentality I talk to Japanese and Americans online and watches International shows instead of local ones. Filipinos might not realize it because it’s common for them to do these things. From an every age I realize how sick Filipinos are. What do you thing will happen when children watches those dramas they broadcast every night with themes that has more negative influence.

nothing can stop what we are now… most of us doesn’t really cares about what will happen to our nation in the near future… so stop defending our selves… because nobody really cares how you do it… both sides made up their minds… if the filipinos sucks.. so be it… and if not…. let our children prove it…. focus on them…. right now where hopeless…. but not our seeds… it’s up to you…. tell them that the world is watching… because we sucks….. !

We people always search the negative sides of others…. But this thing helps us to realize what is happening right now.. And I admit that I’m one of those people….It’s like having wings but not using it to fly…. I have the power to help our country but I do nothing…. I accept all those facts… If there is life there is hope. If there is Filipino living in the Philippines…. Philippines can be saved….
…. “Tiwala lang”

i just read your blog, and I complete agree with you. I lent my students some money to complete her school requirements for her to graduate. Its not much. Only P4,000 but she never bothered to return the money despite repeatedly asking. Now she’s saving up for her trip to Singapore. Go figure!

Oh and that “palibre thing”. I hear lots of that kind of conversation between my students. Whenever someone got his or her allowance, he or she will be asked to treat the others. Poor student. No money at the end of the day. And then what does he do? Ask others to treat him. The cycle continues.

All right. First of all, I, well, am a Filipino. Now, I would like to say that why would you post a discriminating quote like this?! Yes, I know that these, well, are a shame to the Filipino race but what you’re saying is the surface of the Filipino community. You are not looking at the content. It is true that the inside is what matters but the outside is what counts; BUT try to look at the inside for one time.

Well, Americans also have some downsides. Even though we’re poor and you’re rich, don’t treat us like that. Example, some Americans are, if not most, GODDAMN LAZY! YES, LAZY MADAFAKA! Yes, we know. Filipinos are also lazy.

Okay, I need to exploit weakpoints. (…) Um, okay. Back to the main topic. Next time, don’t quote such somewhat interesting post. Instead, quote about the good things of Filipinos, like generosity, kindness, manly fighting (although this is not somewhat good), etc. janreggie, OUT.

I’m a Filipino. I do not hate my country, nor my fellow Filipinos. Lately, I’ve been hearing nothing but murder and rape cases. Though I don’t hate the Philippines because of that. No country is perfect. I feel sad for those people who are condemning the Philippines. Yes, I admit that there were times when I was reluctant to tell that I am a Filipino, and I hated that feeling. I was born in this country, and nothing could ever change that. Yes, I also don’t really like the shows here, so I tend to watch American, Japanese and Korean shows, but I don’t really compare the shows here to them because they are all different from each other. I also think that Filipino jokes are corny, but they never fail to make me laugh. I agree with most things pointed out by the original poster of those 18 reasons, but every country has something to be ashamed of, too.
What I like most about Filipinos is that even though they have a lot of problems, in some way, they could still find a positive light about it. IDK, but most of the Filipinos I’ve met are like that.
I respect all the people who voiced their positive and negative opinions with regards to the Philippines and the Filipinos, but I hope that all the Filipinos who commented here would be a part of a change for the betterment of the Philippines.

It’s ok if the writer isn’t a Filipino. But mind you, too much criticism doesn’t really do anything good in improving our country. How the hell can we gain our nationalism again? Furthermore, the Philippines doesn’t suck as if it’s the worst. Remember that there are other countries who suffer more than majority of us. But if the writer here is a Filipino, shame on you and your colonial mentality. If you really want to change something, why not start changing yourself and go on politics. We really need people like you in the government.

Criticism and making people think is the only thing that will change your country. Most filipino already have too much “nationalism” but not the right type. saying PH is not the worst is relativism. saying there are more murders in Detroit doesn’t mean your murder rate shouldn’t be criticized or that it is acceptable. How is saying things that are true and need to be changed convert to being a colonial mentality??? Go in politics….go and be murdered….go and learn to be corrupt….good people with ability and desire to change PH have virtually no chance of success….it’s all about the money money….the oligarch families

usa sucks! this is the country wanting to have a one-world government, even by means of population control, by creating biological weapons (HIV/AIDS, Bubonic Plague, Gulf War Syndrome, etc) and by monopolizing the world economy.

Yeah I guess what u say is mostly true
Then lucky for you that you were born and raised in a first world country as u’ve said
But what if you’re in our shoe what would you do?
Will u commit suicide?or do what it needs to be done to stay alive?
Good or bad i guess we just have adapt the things we need to survive even if it takes us to kiss your ugly ass…
The truth is we do knew these facts but we cant do anything about it that why most of us leave against our will
We miss out family but we dont want to see them hungry

Please show some respect from your neighboring country since you called yourself highly educated than us..
It seems that your stooping to our level
I pity your country for having a people like you
Giving almost everything but still complaint

YOU MIGHT BE THE BETTER MAN/WOMAN YOU THINK OF YOURSELF
The one who made the list really did take much of her/his time listing all the bad things to say about Philippines. Maybe one reason he/she choose the issue it’s because it will be a hot topic since this topic is interesting to all critics. Many Filipinos surely will react on this when they see and read about it. Filipino for sure will make it as a big deal, yeah because we will never just sit down and do nothing when other people try to bring as down, because that’s who we are. We will always protect our nation and our people with all the negative things thrown to us because we CARE. Why not protect your child or your family when someone tries to say bad things about your love one, why not? Of course we have to protect them because we CARE. Maybe some of you won’t never ever understand that because you never been in our place. They said Filipinos should learn to accept negative things thrown to, to learn and be open minded but after all it doesn’t help us but bring us down. We already know it; yes we know our weaknesses no need to tell the world about our mistake because we are trying to correct it. It’s just that some of us are not fortunate enough and came to a wrong decision. Everyone wants to make a good decision in life, but there are times that we have no choice in life specially the one who are less fortunate. Maybe you just don’t understand it because you are enjoying your own life of having all the pleasurable things of life and forget the real essence of life and never did have chance to understand other people. Instead of helping us you are just worsening the situation with all the negative things listed you demoralized all the Filipino. Why do you have to judge those people, did you ever have some time to think why they choose to do that wrong decision. Did you ever feel what they feel? What if you’re in their position what will you do to feed your stomach and your family suffering from hunger when you have nothing and you have no choice at all. Not only Filipino people possess all this characteristics, everywhere in the world that will be put in same situation will commit same mistake. After all NOT all Filipino are doing things that are listed, and surely wrong to stereotype a whole Filipino for the mistake of a FEW. We/I reacted about the issue written because all the 18 things listed why Philippines suck does not fit to me and to my family. The one who listed all the 18 things why Philippines sucks, why not try to criticize first your own country, maybe you/we have more things to say why it sucks to live there before criticizing other countries. Why not start criticizing yourself first before others; you may be yourself a parasite to your community. As what other said the one you are criticizing actually reflects yourself you maybe the reflection of all the things listed above, just saying. Instead of doing something good for the country you are just trying to make a bad impression about Filipino people. While in fact you never know really our culture. I’m proud to say that Filipino have the best culture in the world. We Filipino never lose our respect to each every human being ( makatao po kaming mga Fililino). WE ALL ARE SAME HUMAN BEING LIVING IN THE SAME WORLD. WE ARE IN SAME UNIVERSE and so don’t act like you are an aristocrat that you yourself and the world you live in is a perfect world with no criminals, no idiots, no bastard etc. around you. I assuredly say that you are also leaving in a world where there are lots of criminals, idiot and bastard around you, yes as I said we live in the same world in which human beings are not perfect. Why not be thankful that you have a better life and help those who are less fortunate instead of thinking and wasting your time criticizing and making more and more list why the Philippine sucks. While in fact it doesn’t help us at all, what you are trying to do is let other people see us bad. I’m not saying that the one who made those 18 lists of things why Philippines sucks is wrong. I’m just trying to say no need to tell the world about it because not every Filipino is doing it and everyone who will be put in a same situation when there is no choice at all will commit same mistake.
You really don’t know the story of every Filipino, and so you have not seen the better side of us. You haven’t heard a taxi driver from Davao City Philippines returned every cent of money left inside the car from a foreigner passenger. It was really a big money that he can choose to bring it home for his family, but he chooses to return it back. A lot of same situation happened here in the Philippines and I’m not saying everyone does it. What I’m trying to say is that what is happening in the Philippines is also happening in other countries. That is why no need to highlighted the bad things about Philippines in order for us to know what’s happening in our country because we all know it more.
I can say that a lot more to say good things about the Philippines than bad things that a critics do.
We maybe not as progressive country compare to other countries but we will never let other people putting us down.
As life of some Filipino is not as fortunate as you are with so much to tell about us and a lot of discrimination, very judgemental person has no other things to do but to see what’s wrong with us, you better come to think of yourself if you’re really that perfect person that you never did commit any mistake once in your life.
You only know Filipino as ethnicity, but definitely you don’t know our stories think before you judge.
I am proud to be a Filipino despite all that 18 negativities written:
1.Most of us we choose to take care of our grandparents instead of putting them in home for the aged as long as we can, while other countries most of them they just throw their grandparents in a home for the aged and who take care of them Filipino caregiver who works for them. As we shows care even people from different culture. Some of caregiver Filipino work outside our country some of them is in area of war, they choose to stay even they sacrifice their own life. They choose not to leave the person they are taking care of even our country is repatriating them back home for their safety. One thing only Filipino people show real love for every human being who need care that they don’t get even in their own family.

2. We always try to show comfort and hospitality in our guest. It is in our culture to give way for our guest we sacrifice our own good just to make them more comfortable.

3. We support every Filipino who represents our country, everywhere you can see Filipino supporter for every representative sent. We celebrate for every win they get and happy for them even the smallest honour that they can give for our country because we are united with one goal that is to give honour to our country. We love our country more than anything else and true Filipino and proud Filipino will die for our country.

4. We only have so little chances and few opportunities but we always strive hard for excellence. We are truly hardworking and willing to sacrifice for the good of our family. Yes some of as commits wrong decision sometimes, but come to think first before judging us most just went into that decision because we love our family and we are willing to do everything for our family not for ourselves. We are not the kind of selfish people from other countries that doesn’t care for other people as long as they are good in their own self who try to find satisfaction in the internet for some pleasure.

5. Even we have so few resources survival is not a problem as we are gumptions. Yes we have so many people who are poor, but this people you called poor are people who never did choose the kind of life they have. The one you called poor people is the one willing to help anyone who is in need even though they lack financially they still willing to help and some of them we called hero. They are the people who will do everything to help their fellow people even sacrificing their own life, because they do it without anything in return. They are people who can manage to live their life even without those material things you enjoyed which are only pleasurable. We have what we call contentment in life, not ask for anything that we cannot afford to have, but instead try to live life in a better way despite all the challenges in life. Living a life is not all about the progress of your country but it is all about what kind of people you are for other people.

6. Filipino are truly intelligent people, if all of us have chances to be in school surely a lot of geniuses are from the Philippines given the chances compare to other countries Filipino student have more interest to learn. Some other countries even a respect for their teacher is sometimes gone but here in Philippines we respect our teacher/professor same respect we show to our parents.

7. We are not close minded and for sure not idiot people to understand the situation first before judging other people. Think about the reasons behind before you judge look for the reasons why before saying anything about us. Have some time to reflect why do this people live like this and why do they act like that and think you are lucky than they/we are. Why not do something good for them keep the verdict to you and help them instead.
Maybe you have a better life with your family and friends and nothing to worry about what you going to eat and your family for the next day, if you think that you’re lucky in life than the less fortunate people that you are judging. One thing I can say is that, they are much better person than you are, reason they try to live their life in a way that they cannot offended other people moral. This people you are judging have nothing to do with you but they strive hard for their family.
Respect is given to those who know how to respect themselves.
My English is not perfect beside it’s not my primary language, I wrote it in English for everyone to understand it and I am just a human being and I’m not perfect. Think and reflect before you make a verdict.
Nothing wrong for being an Asian and definitely nothing wrong for being a Filipino because we are trying to make everything for the good of everyone we are who we are, trying to make things not to offend anyone else.
Yes be proud to be a Filipino, I am proud Filipino I stand for my country.

I understand why the original writer wrote this. I myself am half Filipino, and since I’ve returned here to continue my education, I’ve observed many of these things you’ve pointed out from my friends, extended family members, and frankly it annoys me that your list describes the reality for most Filipinos I know. Of course there are Filipinos who are different from what you’ve described, but sadly I only knew a few.

I actually want to add a few points to this list
– Filipinos will always find someone/something else to blame when they are described negatively – when a foreigner says that Filipinos are corrupt, Filipinos would always say it’s the system’s fault, and a lot of similar cases I’ve observed from my 7 year stay
– Filipinos are overly defensive, even when the criticisms are constructive – they would immediately raise comparative cases from other cases and say that “at least we’re better than _____ when it comes to _____ .” And frankly that just does not help improving the country and society at all. Try to observe comments from defensive Filipinos on this blog, and you’ll see my point.
– Filipinos are too obsessed with matters that do not concern them, and what’s sad is, it is now a cultural thing.
– Filipinos think that if you’re from another country, you’re automatically rich, and so all your relatives expect you to treat all five hundred thousand of them somewhere nice, even if you’re just a student, like me. And if you don’t do so, they’ll bad mouth you everytime they get together.

I say this, not because I hate the Philippines. I’ve actually found some good friends who have nothing matching with the list above. But I say this because I want to see improvements in this society, and be rid of my annoyance everytime I see my relatives and they ask me for money or to treat them somewhere they can’t afford (and most likely neither can I). I want to see development and progress, and frankly, I know that cannot happen unless all the Filipinos take all criticisms constructively, and use them as pointers on how to improve things around here.

19 They truly knows how to waste a lot of money specially in road widening that will become a very nice parking lot. You don’t want to that road because your going to hit trees, poles & someones fence.

20. Short term memory, greed & lawlessness that’s why crime is so abundant. Look at the supreme court judge that was just impeached, it is called half baked justice.

21. Laws is for the rich, powerful and politicians who will try their very best to hide their ill gotten wealth, who cares about the poor they are only needed in elections they fray for them like flies.

22. They will include the whole clan of the family in the politics because the trick is just bring big actors, actresses in the caravan and people will follow them like crazy.

Let me say this to you, insufferable bitch.
Compare to us, filipinos, youbare nothing. Why? Because of the things that you said that belittle us. All I can say is that you are not an educated person, all you do and what you’ve said, reflect poorly on you. Don’t worry bitch. Karma will get you. ..|..

wow…or should i say wow wow wee….you are not an educated person??? an educated person wouldn’t agree with at least some of the things listed…your response sounds so filipino….in the worst way…name calling and calling on karma…a filipino’s favourite for dealing with the real shit that happens to them.but can’t do anything about…because of the corrupt police…corrupt courts…expensive legal systems, friends taking care of friends..(for money)…you belittle yourself with your response..your names not miriam is it? hahahhahaha.

First off bitch, lay off the filipino frayd. Belittling? You mean scamming for a living or throwing your garbage anywhere but the can or not simply following traffic rules aren’t belittling enough for you? Are his words hurt you more than being used as a weak pathetic tool of the gov’t? Indeed, this country does create a warped understanding of ourselves and around us. And you’re living proof of that.

Logic just does not exist in the Filipino mind, believe me I know, having lived in shared accommodation with several in the Middle East. I try my hardest to console myself with facts such as they have never had an industrial revolution or a decent education and their pension fund is based on how many children they have sired. Oh and why is it that Thailand is now an ‘Asian Tiger’ economy, yet the Philippines is still languishing in poverty? Millions travel from N. America and Europe to Thailand for their holidays yet in comparison the volume of travellers to Manila and the provinces beyond is minuscule in comparison. I’ve had safer and more pleasant experiences in deepest darkest Africa than in the shit hole that the PR is. You Filipino’s have to take charge of this and act positively to change your country – a country that has the worlds highest per capita birth rate in the world; its that pension thing again. Contraception!

for my dear fellow Filipinos…Lets just pray for those people who hates us..Well it just shows that Racist are still around though where living in a HiTech World..For english,where the 3rd largest english speaking country in the world..Imagine that bitting all the white countries in europe, For the Bigot who wrote the comments forhating FILIPINO..God bless you..We all Filipinos Forgve you.. ;p

3rd lasgest english speaking country …aha ..and now ??? i mean only your proud to talk not your own language but your proud of it to copy another language …? explain me that..if u can do it…in not general answers…

most filipino can’t speak correct english and many can’t speak any…it’s bullshit that you kid yourselves with…I also find that many filipino are racists…they just hide it…hell they are even racists against their own dark skinned people

I love the Philippines but I just want to make some requests
1) Do not cheat, overcharge or deadbeat foreigners who visit or live in PH. Because u dont like it when Arabo, Singaporean, HKer mistreat, cheat, not pay salary to OFWs, do you? You feel hurt when Filipinos are abused abroad. But how can you complain if so many innocent foreigners get used and abused in the Philippines.
2) Hospitality means you are a host and you pay. If you ask the guest to pay, this is not hospitality.
3) Do not use foreigners by marrying matabang lolo and going to the States.
Study some geography, Hindi lahat ng puti ay Kano. And even Kano have no money now. This is not 1945 now. Pobre ang mga Kano.
Please promote Filipino culture and music. If you are such proud Pinoys why all this old old American music all the time. Americans do not play your music do thet? They promote thier own. You also should promote your own.

I spent the past three months in the Philippines and was amazed by the fact that most Filipino`s go the church every Sunday to thank Jesus or God for what they have, and they give money to the church also.
My question is “What has Jesus or God ever done for them?”
Typhoons,Poverty,Sickness,Hunger,Slums,and so on..The Lord is REALLY looking after them. Amen.
One who cares.

Seriously though, this country is a mess; AND not a single soul wants to change it. It’s like being in an ocean of drones, the middle class here have no potential to make a difference, (as they only care about themselves); The working class are preoccupied with just surviving through the month (or maybe preoccupied lusting after their daughters, hell. every-time I look at a newspaper, there’s always an article about a man who turned his daughter to a sex slave.), while the upper class and elites don’t want a change to happen. (because they profit more this way, more whores, more gunmen, more puppets to use.)

Nothing will ever change here.

Those who see the problems and worry about them, could only go online and complain at a fucking screen. (Stop believing it will make a difference you retards, this country has been ruled by corrupted and dynastic oligarchies ever since the Negritos arrived. Your “I wants to changess the thingzz” comments wont do jack shit.)

It sucks to be Jose Rizal in the afterlife, as you watch your country kill itself. (No, not suicide, this country is literally killing itself like a Toxoplasma gondii infected rat.)

That is very true..i hate pinoy….whenever i meet them they will talk to me in their languange..even if i called KFC here in Dubai and pinoy takes my orders…gosh..they will start talking their language..they think all asian here are pinoys…this is really annoying..they are lack of manners..and yeah be aware once pinoy want to borrow money from you…the most dirty things that they are doing are buttering to their boss..they will work once the boss is there..showing off…and they will do everything include open their legs to get the promotion or sending their college home so that they can bring their family and work with them….about the pinay…once my germany friend said…once you fall for once filipina..you will be responsible for the entire family…and about filipino man..are 200% unfaithfull….oh yeah i just remember that they think they are smarter than other asian coz they speak taglis____________

ONLY FILIPINOS SAY PINOY SO YOU FOR ONE ARE ONE OF THE MOST PATHETIC PEOPLE IN LIFE. FUCK YOU FOR BEING FILIPINO AND FUCK YOU EVEN MORE FOR BEING AN IDIOT WHO HATES HIS OWN RACE AND FUCK YOU EVEN MORE FOR BEING A FAGGOT LIKE GOD AND JESUS

stop insulting filipinos its not their fault to be like this.its the fucking political rulers who keep on corrupting the money of filipinos.if they are good rulers and true to their citizens philippines would be such a nice country.cut my neck if not.they are resourceful talented religious hospitable industrious people.yeah its true but some filipinos are well knowleged and and have first class talents that whites cannot be.maybe some filipinos are just forced to do this because of poverty.they are better singers compared to some whites.

part of the problem is in your own words….”rulers” politicians in a real democracy are not rulers. yes your politicians are corrupt. But so are just about every level of society in PH. From the trike/jeepney driver to the president…corrupt. hell…you know….can buy a vote for p50…so you get what you deserve. I won’t cut your neck…that’s the job of Abu sayaf. Yes resourceful….a filipino can probably fix a broken diff on a jeep with 3 bananas and some chewing gum….but that doesn’t mean you’re going anywhere. talented??…like wowwowwee…that sort of talent? where is this filipino talent…where are the world beating scientists, writers, artists, actors, researchers…or maybe you mean like jessica sanchez….the also mexican but really american….wake up…whites cannot be…??? really. sorry, wanting to believe in your country and your people is admirable….being blind and arrogant about it is what Me the white guy is supposed to be…according to you guys.

Yupp I agree with all these negative reasons….but there are more good reasons for me why Im proud of being pinoy. We are hard working people, polite, forgiving, understanding..and we do everything to for our family! And Philippines might not be the best. Or..cleaness nation..but theres one thing for sure this is my home. This is why no matter you think about my home!!! Theres no place like it😜

some are hard working…too many want to live of the hard working…how many assholes sit around drinking red horse and picking their nose while the OFW kills themselves working. many who work within PH don’t want to work hard….they want to find ways to take it easy….sorry. some filipinos are polite….most are not. Never say thank you. Never apologize. hell, most I’ve met complain if you give them something that’s it’s not enough or not good enough. I would go as far as to say they are the most ungrateful people I have ever met…..and I’ve met people from many countries. Yes many filipinos are forgiving….they don’t want to piss the gravy train off too much when they find one filipino or foreigner. They also have really short memories…..like the incredible unforgiving crime rate, blood money, murder rate….forgiving like that you mean??? Understanding?…well sorry but that’s just meaningless. But you are correct….”we do everything to our family”….absolutely…rape, murder, scam, use, abuse. I would venture to say that while there are some filipino who are in balance with their family…a fair deal….I would venture to say that those are in the minority. Even if it’s not, the level of shit within too many filipino family is way above the average in western society….but that probably makes me a racist, arrogant, blah blah blah. I have sympathy for you….you believe in your people…..you see the good….but you don’t see the truth

We have rights. And you are basically. Stereotyping. Sure, we have hookers and all those shit. But America also has those. We have murderers, America has them too. Filipinos have lots of things to contribute to the earth, knowledge, art, etc. So yeah, be happy with your racist rants, but don’t stereotype that we all are bad people

you have way more hookers than is average…why? because of 2 things. 1) poverty…anywhere there is poverty there will be prostitution. 2) you have an endless supply. Why. Pinoy f^ck pinay. Pinay get pregnant. Pinoy run away. Pinay go to bar, …..that’s it, end of story….ah sorry. not end of story….pinoy go and f@ck other pinay while putting sh!t on the first one and saying she pokpok…that how u all are…even if that is not you, you tolerate it, and continue the bs

I’m only 16 years old though I’ve hated living here in the Philippines since I was 9. Ever since my mother and father split up (although not divorced) I took it upon myself to play videogames everyday, drink lots of alcohol, and smoke tobacco and weed. I never really felt that there was a place for me here. I only walk at night even though there are a lot of snatchers during that time but I would prefer it than seeing the poverty in the morning or afternoon. I try my best at school getting above average scores on every subject except filipino. the subject that made me have summer classes right now.. I really wish I could die rather than stay in this pathetic christian country. btw these are my final words goodbye

You’re a heartless person, that’s illegal, you’ll kill the innocentest of the innocent Filipino, now stop trashing our country! And yet all smiles? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! How dare you say that to humiliate Filipinos! I’m a Filipino, I accept the truth about most of them, but I’m not all that. I don’t think I even have 1 point in there! I’m just 12, so please don’t make a mockery of me. So please, stop.

I am a Filipino. All of these are true but please don’t underestimate our country. We have a saying that “Easy is to Judge the Mistakes of the Others; Difficult is to judge our own mistakes.” Have you ever thought of your countries own mistakes? Think of your countries own mistakes before underestimating our country. You people don’t have the right to judge us because it’s our country not yours. You don’t even know the story of each Filipino then you kept judging us? Supervise your own country so it could be a better place. I know, I’m too young to be saying this, but what your doing to us is wrong. And where would you see a Filipino hating its own country? How dare you to hate your own country?? It’s your country and you don’t love it? Every person must love it’s own country.

For all the Filipinos out there, please help each other to make our country a better place to live in. I would suggest that we should have the responsibility to make our country a clean place so that they would not underestimate us. Be a better person!

Princess, Your country hates no one ..your country belongs to the most beautiful nature places ive ever seen. Your people , your folk is it which we dont like. And this are not only the longnose countries which have a problem with the phils. Your mentality allows you not , to grow for a better. you might going each day into the church and pray but you follow not the message what the priest wants to teach you. Your people have a big problem to be down earth and to have a real big want to learn. Coz they are thinking they are already perfect ! and this they deliver in an ignorant and arrogance way to all others…there u mustnt whonder that the pinoys are not getting loved and other nations see them as “child brains….

@Princess Camelle Gamalo.
I know it does not feel good to read such things, but why do you say they are judging? They are actually ‘criticizing’. Do they have the right to? Yes, on the Internet, they do. They are on wordpress.com. WordPress is registered in San Francisco, USA. USA is home to Free Speech, and people are free to criticize the US, Philippines, Germany, whoever.

That is the number 1 right in the USA- Freedom of Expression. I know it’s not part of the Philippine culture to criticize or say bad things. I respect that. However, this is on wordpress.com. It is in the USA. If people want to criticise the Philippines, the can, if they want to criticize Afghanistan, they can. They can say whatever they want. Sorry, Camelle, welcome to Free Speech and welcome to America! If you don’t like criticism, then do not read!

Actually Juan I disagree. I read a lot of criticism and plain insulting bullshit by many Filipinos against other countries and nationalities. So they are quite happy to use their free speech. The difference is that Filipinos scream like stuck pigs when it’s done to them!

I don’t think Filipinos must be judged that way. Even other countries have their own bad sides. You cannot put the blame to all if its just a couple of people just doing this act said above. FILIPINOS mustn’t be discriminated just because you saw this and that. Put yourself in the position of some filipinos, what if you were the reading this, would you be happy? you just said your opinion and you are so opinionated.

What many Filipinos do not like is impoliteness and lack of respect directed at them. They don’t mind criticism but they want it done the Filipino way- with a smile and gently and in private. It’s not in the Filipino culture to directly confront people, so they simply can’t handle it. Even if it’s logical and makes sense, the amor propio will stand in the way of absorbing it.

This is why in public, Filipino people are even more polite than the Japanese.

Ta-dah! Enter USA and wordpress and Free Speech.

Now, again, wordpress is located in America. Americans are far more vocal about when they see bad things in their country and other countries. Criticising them is asking others to improve to wake up. A Filipino cannot handle that culturally.

that is basicly totally correct Juan. But i have to say even a simple critics they can not handle..not a harsh spoken critics, im saying a simple critics like ” hmm do you think what you ve done there was so well ?” These people have no self insight , they answer on critics in general and mostly about “god knows that im right” this kind of child character makes them fall back into a non thinking mind without any personality. They react only but they never act. You can use them as simple workers which follow your words but more is with the MOST ( not all) really not possible. I know some pinoys which are clever people, with a good personality and character but there are many many many pinoys which are low down in self insight and as good catholics and human you have to see your own fails and say to urself and others ” yes ive done shit , im sorry and i know i was wrong ” These words you will never hear from any pinoy

Why I hate Filipinos? Because their people are too narcissistic, overly proud and blatantly bitter to other better nations. They are simply arrogant and take pride of their ability to speak English as a sign of their superiority to others. Unfortunately, they have some internet access and keep spamming famous pages like Youtube to promote their singers. Somehow they think by exhibiting ‘good’ singers (they are just some loud karaoke frequents btw) would make them the best people in the world. Also, they seem to be ignorant on how annoying they become when they speak, and well, just by being Filipino… sad case…

Im filipino and I honestly think that as well. Im 100% Filipino and for all I care, people here are so sensitive. I respect this list cuz it’s the opinion given by others. Plus the fact that filipino shows suck ass, ugh. And fashion here is worst than Mike Jeffries face. Why because filipinos dont know what originality is. Plus the fact that filipinos are too PROUD. I dont hate us, but it just sucks to be one.

i know a this IT person IN usa who begged for money when natural calamity struck sometime back.The person has many years in IT and got promoted showing her ass-sets to managers. Its shame that the person said i have no saving as i used all my salary every month to support my family back in my native country.

when a nation needs to export its women as maids to overseas in order to contribute to its GDP, something is seriously wrong with this nation.
stop talking about Filipino pride. there isnt any, until you truly move out of a ghetto country impression.

To be honest, those things listed are real. I’m a Filipino and I agree. Though, the manner of telling us about it is just rude. Given the fact that we were once a great country that doesn’t have majority of those attitudes, all I can say is, that Spain(those “loose” criminals who were ruling over us within 300 years and the explorer from the same country who, I think, has no idea who are the men with him.), influenced us with the attitude of being like that.

I say, the politicians here in our country is not that great also. The core of them all is the past events and the present “leaders”. Given the fact that our country is still striving for the basic needs, the politicians and the so called “leaders” are corrupts. I’m not saying that all of them. But, the main reason why we have these “leaders” is because there were people who are paid to vote.

In short, this is just one of those eternal loops.

If Philippines wants to have a ruler as great as the father/ mother, why can’t they just pick Monarchy, right? And there should be only one ruler and people could impeach him/ her if they has seen him done wrong. Though, overlooking the current situation, I think that that idea is just an unreachable dream.

If you decide to speak out loud of what you think about us, then we, too, would speak out loud of what we think of what you have said. We have the right to talk back about what your idea is and you also have the right to tell me I’m wrong but, in a manner of respect.

Please try to tell think about you judgement for you have no idea what is happening in my country. If you solely think that Philippines has not cared about the situation, then I would think of you as a full retard and people say that you should never go full retarded. That’s all.

The Spanish left the Philippines about 6 generations ago. Other than that there are many things that can be said of filipino that couldn’t possibly have been instilled in the Filipino from the Spanish. After all the things that are seen as common place in the filipino aren’t seen in the general population of the Spanish. There are also many examples of countries that were colonized that are far advanced from the Philippines both economically and culturally. Blaming the Spanish is just another example of filipino passing the blame.

OK ! you’re right .. but how about the other country and the people itself? they’re not ??!! Maybe you have some of your bad descriptions about Filipinos because you don’t even mind that you’ve disrespected the Philippines.

Whatever you said doesn’t make you a better person. Thank you for giving us reasons to strive more and be a better nation to live in. We are proud of who we are and at least we are the happiest people in the world. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas.

Whatever you said doesn’t make you a better person. Thank you for giving us reasons to strive more and be a better nation to live in. We are proud of who we are and at least we are the happiest people in the world. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas.

People differ from each other and we know that everybody is imperfect so it is really not a good thing to speak about the bad things, which we should ignore and instead focus on good things, about a person or even people of a nation. What have been pointed out here are all unpleasant things not only about the Filipinos but also in other people from different countries so don’t just talk about Filipinos because we know that there are still some out there that are also doing the things listed.

Filipinos are nice people, however there are many who are uneducated backward and uncivilised monkeys….I married a filipino whose parents were parasites looking for western money…The mother ate without knife or fork using her hands like a primitive monkey licking her fingers. Who eats rice using their fingers to mix in tomato sauce…fukin gross…Do you know how much bacteria is on her hands?

She left water all over the toilet seat….Would stuff her face at restaurants never paying of course and ordering up big. Would demand a new car and holidays despite never working a day in her life…Then the loser dad quits his job the moment the children graduate from college. Meanwhile my western parents are both working 20 years after i graduated….the filipinos cry poor….the parents sit by and make the children poor because in the west its expensive as hell to live and they want $300 a week to live off plus emergency, gifts, repairs on their hours, etc.

I am a filipino and i think most of the filipino are idiot yeah its true if you are a white if you get married to filipa you feed all the family how stupid they cant work to make money and some of the girls here are slut they work in a place called ANGELES CITY PAMPANGGA to make money and some of the white people are stupid also they know that the girl work in a bar they still asking to married them how idiot i hate both thats why i live with my old decision like my own world no matter where you belong here white or filipina both “SUCKS” grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i hate this stuff but yeah all you saying is truth FILIPINO people are so goddamn STUPID like im saying FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKING BITCH AND ASSHOLES… and im proud to intruduce my self to a filipina and filipino even though im one of them im Andrea Sanchez Live in a shit country called FILIPINAS and im bloody 22 years fucking years old.

Yep Andrea, I really cant say ALL Pinoys are complete full idiots…that would be too easy…but we have here a general discussion about the Pinoys so i generalize also a bit. You have tooo many really stupid idiots in your country ( we western have that too of course) But its really clear to see in the Phils which low mind the most have ( as ive said not all pinoys are like that) They cant follow mostly even a discussion and answer a fucking general shit on clear points..The white longnose guys like me which have the dream to marry a pinay from the bar…Oh my how fucking stupid they are…u cant get the bar outa a slut boys…dont dream this dream ! I agree totally with ur statement Andrea, You seem to have an overview of the things…It matters in general not what u are , you can be black yelllow or any other ..it matters only what kind of mind you carry inside yourself..and we are talking here genreal about the pinoys means also for me , the most of them are fucked up stupid idiots. This means not, That i respect those pinoys not which provide me that they have an intellect. Western guys which dream to marry a pinay with a large and poor family should think about it…what it will take ( guys even the nicest pussy will be boreing one day) i couldnt live even with the most pretty pinay together when i know already her whole dumbass family and also she found in me a new Papa which feeds the whole fucking family.
I help pinoys which have no cash , but i give nothing for free. Coz i know their minds about a western and in general. Again i want to say..not all of the pinoys are fucking idiots, You have also really GOOD culture values which we western dont have BUT i tell also this set to my wife often ” Filter the bullshit of ur fuck culture out , suck the GOOD from your culture into your mind and try to absorb the anyoing bullshit they have teached you in the phils.” I try the same with my western culture too…
All the best ….Andrea

I’m a Korean. I’ve been staying in the Philippines since 2007. I’ve met some nice filipinos while staying in here. But the things writer says about is completely true. You might say “Then why are you still staying in my country?”
My answer is ” Yeah~ That’s the reason why I’ve made up my mind leaving this country soon for good. I’m sick and tired of dealing with you people. and i will treat your filipino workers in korea the same way that i’ve been treated by your people.”
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying all of your fellow filipinos are asses. I got few good filipino friends in here. But sorry to say, Majority of the filipinos can not be free from the quote above.

wow. My full comment is coming soon. I’ve been living here for more then 5 years. And yes I have something to say about this country. Some issues will be good, some issues will be offending.
But in the first place, the one who started this subject: in most of your comments you have a real good point.

I know my origins and where I come from and sadly I couldn’t agree more with what is stated above. This country is nothing but a disappointment with all my 26 years of living in this third world rotten country. Sometimes I wonder why was I even born in this polluted, god-forsaken fucked-up country in the first place. “Proud to be Pinoy?” Really??? In what way? Proud for the fact that we have a life time supply of corrupt politicians and cops who are assholes? Proud for the fact that ‘A MAJORITY’ (I didn’t say all) Filipinos are narrow/closed-minded people of how they perceived life? Proud for the fact that ignorance plagues the very core of its society and yet most of them choose not to do anything about it? I must have seen, witnessed and heard countless debates of how this country can have a better secured future and tomorrow…but I was mistaken to believe in such delusional hope. The poor are as vile as the rich and rich are as greedy as fuck. What is new? I have seen the footage through and though…All that I ever see in the goddamn news is either someone getting shot, raped, murdered, kidnapped, or some moron stealing something from someone. I say all of this, not because i think I’m perfect or my hands are clean…I know and I’m very much aware that I have done a lot of terrible and stupid things in my past as well. But I did strive to improve and forged myself ahead to make myself a better person. The point is: all these things I see in the local news, radio and maybe even in the newspapers are mostly about negative things about this country that I’m fucking sick of it that I just want to plunge this country into chaos until it turns nothing but a heap of ruins by setting it on fire until nothing is left anymore. I’m a product of the society that has made me, molded me into a hateful, wrathful and misunderstood individual…and the truth is: I don’t give a shit if people think I’m strange. I would rather be proud for what I stood for than “go with the flow” moronic concept. I refuse to stoop down that level or even embrace the whole disgusting culture and sub-culture of this vile and wretched country and that whole “pakisama” bullshit concept. This country is based on collectivism which is pathetic and lame. Why can’t they strive to be different and unique? Why can they forge their own path and stand out as great individuals instead of following and kissing-ass to another person or group? And when a group of these Filipino people join together as friends and they meet a foreigner or someone who is simply new to the culture, they make fun and ridicule him or her. WHY??? Because that person speaks English? Because that person disagrees with the way life works in the Philippines? And these group of retarded pinoys would make shallow claim that: “Oh! you just know how to get along with us! Haha!” I’m truly disgusted in every way possible. Maybe you are asking, “If I hate this country so much then why don’t you leave then?” You think I never though of that before like 8 years ago? Fuck! I so want to leave already, but my passport was under the control of my parents and I didn’t have money back then. If had it my way 8 years ago, I would have left a long time ago. You think am joking? Try me. And one more thing: Since most of you Filipinos are so religiously inclined type of people, Why don’t ask your so-called “God” why he put me in this THIRD WORLD country in the first place? Give me an answer and maybe JUST MAYBE I’d have that slightest respect for him and his son that died in that cross.

ALL OF YOU ARE IDIOTS! YOU ARE ALL NOTHING BUT STUPID MONKEYS WHO THINK THEY ARE SMART!! SHUT THE FUCK UP! GET UP FROM YOUR SEAT AND DO SOMETHING IN REAL LIFE RATHER THAN BLOGGING ABOUT YOUR BULLSHIT!!! FUCK FILIPINOS! FUCK AMERICANS AND FUCK HUMANS FOR BEING STUPID! FUCK US ALL!! PS- GOD IS NOT REAL IDIOTS!! GOD IS A FAGGOT WHO FAGGOTS CREATED SO THEY CAN WORSHIP SOMEONE WHO IS A FAGGOT LIKE THEM YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS!!!!

I am Filipino and I agree with most of the things said. For me, its constructive criticism. I hope more people would look at it that way and at least acknowledge ones weaknesses then do something about it.

And if people would say how can I even say this to my own country? I can go all day with you on that. This country will remain like this, or worse. But at least if the people would start the change within themselves, then maybe there’s still hope.

Hate me or Agree with me my own kind for all you want. No ones perfect, but at least one can try to. It starts with accepting our weaknesses, and not denying, If that simple thing is still hard for most of us to do.. Then I don’t know what to say anymore.

Those are completly true and I agree with them. I think it’s just that average of the filipinos, if not all, are just stupid and ill-mannered. They also used to say thats it’s more fun in the philippines, but it is completly the opposite. they’re fun of saying that we should admire our own products, but philippine made products (especially gadgets, machines, hardwares and etc…) are just of low quality, so how can we admire such products? That is why filipinos are not patriotic when it comes to philipine products and look for imported ones. *#*ck this country! This was suppose to be a nice country, field with natural wonders with beautifull beaches and reach in natural resources which are given by God to us, but it’s just that the people who are inhabiting this wonderfull paradise are turning it into hell.

each time i have boy friend,they always told me that they was broken heart from philippine girls,they gave them sex and spent their guys money for buying clothes,apartment and else,they pretend like they were in love,like so care about their guys,but after getting the money,and see that the guy lost all materials they leave the guy alone and change to gave sex to another guys, she was so kind to him,and he really couldn’t believe that she did that to him,i feel bad for him😦, my question is,why the American guys are still blind to see how mean philippine girls are??,why they still thinking and saying that they are beautiful in and out??,is it because sex??

All in all it can be commented in 1 word or better 1 keyword. The missing word in the Philippines is : respect. No one has any respect to others or surrounding things. They don’t know what it is and how to use it. Look around you in everything what they do, how they behave, the way they talk, the way they treat others and surroundings, and how they act. It’s an almost impossible task to make them aware how to implement the keyword : RESPECT.

Please delete this website. These blogs are extremely offending to the Filipino people. I am a Filipino, and I admit that our country has many faults. From politics to poverty it is evident that our country is not perfect or the best, but can anyone from any country say that their own country is the best in the world when it comes to every aspect? There will always be issues, problems and corruption existing in every nation. It is the sinful habit of humanity. But this website, I just cannot see why anyone at all will make such a site. A site made to just degrade a single race? And when asked, the hostiles say they mock our country because they want us to learn a lesson? Obviously they must review their work. Also I observe the vast comments, the Pinoys put up long and sensible arguments, and after the hostile foreigner simply replies with a mere mimic from the comments of hostiles who actually put up a good argument. And I also see many Filipinos and foreigners here badmouthing each other alike. Let us all be intelligent, humane people here. Let us actually think and do our research and maybe have experience before we comment here. Again my country is not a perfect country, there are many things I would like to see change here. And if not, I would like too see a better living abroad honestly, but do not let the works of a few Filipinos spoil the rest of the bunch. Again, please delete this website, I am sure you will also be upset when you see a website focused on all the bad things of your own land. If you really want to see a change in a country, pray for it, pray that God may bless it, remove all the corrupt men who control it and restore it back to its original beauty. Do not simply point out all the bad things about the country and say that it sucks due to an observation you saw about it. Please show respect to our nation, if you want to see our respect for your nation. I have to say as well, we have many benefits coming from foreign nations. These stronger powers molded our current culture and society. Most particularly the Spanish and Americans, their colonization operations in our country had a massive impact on us. I hope a mutual respect for each other will help make us stronger. I hope, one day I can call this nation a great nation that it was before. But until then, I pray that God may guide our people towards the right path, for the better of our country and to better the world. P.S. if you are a fellow Filipino and you are offended by this post, do not be barbaric and immediately curse at the foreign hostiles who offended out country. We are all humans here, and we can all commune with each other in a respectful manner. Sincerely, – Paul, a 13 year old Filipino youth.

well, in my own opinion the 18 mentioned is right…….and always right..but don’t you think it is too much. Most of the politician are corrupt and also the rest, did not even finish their high school. Filipinos elected senators because they think that specific person can really helped them but in the end- just being betrayed. They were pushed to the limit that they should elect people who suffered the same event as them, believing that this person will really helped them. But betrayals keep repeating itself.

Philippines is really nasty, however the mentioned country has its own beauty. Filipinos do really care about their country but they just don’t know where to start. They tried to regain its beauty but they keep failing. First reason is, the current PRESIDENT itself is a humiliation, and yes the presidency comes down to the lineage. That is true. But lineage is not a problem, the problem is how this person govern his people and land.

Second, beggars outside the church is not a problem, it is the people looked at them as useless creature. It is better to beg than to still and commit a crime.
Third, filipina is not cheap-chasing after americans, they are just wondering if that american like the country or not. Filipinas wanted to tour this foreigner around their country and it is not their fault that those americans falls in love to them.

Really guys, you can criticize Philippines and its nastiness but you don’t have to criticize Filipinos. I mean most them are really talented and smart. Like for example Agapito Flores the person who invented our flourescent buld today and guest what he is a filipino.

I’m sorry..actually no I’m not buy everything above is true and if Filipinos keep refusing to face facts then there really is no hope..to those who wish to keep looking at the positive side of things you are lying to yourself and that’s just stupid.

Guys its really a watste of time to criticise a filipino.no matter how insulting or true what you say.they are deepy conditioned by their corrupt culture that its alright to be tis way because the majority behave this way.

To all the authors, i acknowledge your opinion about the Philippines and i really appreciate, What your reaction to my country, I know that Philippines is one of the worst country in Asia and many people criticize to Filipino, because of corruption, many crimes and disasters.Those who hates Filipino citizens, I’m sorry but i actually looking to the positive sides of Filipino’s,
1.) like when there is a disaster like a typhoon the you will see a Filipino unity, however they are hopeless they keep smiling.
2.) Many Filipino are talented and no doubt their skills are really amazing.
3.) The beauty of Filipina is international quality many pinay won a beauty pageant.
4.) The creativeness of Filipino even if they are lack of equipment’s they have the alternative equipment’s and improvise.
5.) The hospitality of Pinoy and kindness many Filipino had a loving heart “Good Samaritan”, Many tourist once they left their money, Filipino give it back to them.
that’s why I am proud to be Filipino..

Ok, I’m a Filipino and I admit most of these things are true, especially the corruption.The Filipinos are too prideful, they need to be less butthurt when criticized or make mistakes. The shows, it’ll make your IQ drop. The real solution is to reform the government into a efficient and non-corrupt body. That way since there’s less corruption there’s more funds for education and welfare, thus reducing poverty, creating more jobs and education would also improve.

To all the hypocrites out there, saying the Filipinos are racist, then badmouth them for being “fucking ignorant little island monkeys , trash people, maids, toilet cleaners and dogs.” I applaud you for your intelligence and hypocrisy. We aren’t racist, well at least everyone I know isn’t. One of my best friends is Chinese, my little brother’s godfather is Chinese, I find their company very enjoyable. I have lots of buddies that are black. Even have a half Korean girlfriend.

The point is,it’s the government, remove them and reeducate the people then all will go nice and dandy. But there’s no way of achieving it now so this post is nothing but a pipe dream.

Also take your time and look at your respective countries, hell it ain’t as perfect as you fucking think it is. Well is it?

I met one woman who is a bad representative of the Philippines, and brings down the image of the country. As the OddGuy just said she is a perfect example of “The Filipinos are too prideful, they need to be less butthurt when criticized or make mistakes.” I don’t know about all Filipinos, but this one is special.

There is no stopping her lies, racism and haughtiness. She is like a cockroach, hard to annihilate. She appears frail but that’s because she’s abusing laxatives to stay trim. She’s always hungry, and looks positively miserable always. The reason she can do that is that she is FAKE. She’s all about projecting an image so even if you’ve wiped the floor with her and showed her how stupid and incompetent she is, she will PRETEND like nothing happened. You can never force her to admit to being wrong. She’s 29 years old. She’s basically acash machine to her parents in Manila. They demand large portions of her income and use it for raising their social status.

I negotiated her work contract and applied for her visa so I know she has $2000 or less after taxes, rent and deductions. I regret having hired her, and I vow to correct my mistake. After sending money home, she has less than $900. So imagine my amusement when she’s boasting about “saving hard” and “I have my prrraaaaperty” at Starbucks. She plunked down $1800 on a Fujitsu laptop when on the same floor at the tech store, macbooks were going for less than $1000, ASUS laptops was going for $500 with software or $300 with a wifi plan. Why did she spend so much on a laptop when other, better brands are cheaper? “It’s pink. I want this color.” That was supposed to make me think she’s rich.

Being haughty, she didn’t come to me for advice like I suggested when she got here and wasn’t prepared for a SIGNIFICANT increase in her tax burden in her second year. To cover for her mistake, she made up a big fat lie that the city was miscalculating her tax and had three of my colleagues on the phone accusing city accountants of stealing! One of the city accountants is a close friend of mine. I asked her to visit my office personally with evidence that the city was correctly calculating her taxes. They knew what they were doing and she had signed the contract at city hall. There’s the copy. Did she read it? No, just stuffed it in a drawer. Had she come to me for financial counselling? No. Did she apologise for LYING? No.

Her bank in the Philippines has just foreclosed on her praaaperty because her parents forced her to take on heavy mortgage debt. So she’s living in an expensive country and living on less than a third of her available income. BUT, you should have seen the way she plonked a $15,000 Hermes bag and a $500 See by Chloé tote bag on her desk.

So stylish and fashionable, but can’t afford a hair stylist or a color, which costs half of one pair of Tory Burch shoes for the entire year! And wears cheap looking Hilary Clinton style scrunchies. She tells me the bags are vintage but I know they’re fakes. I know because she said I was foolish for grabbing an $80 designer handbag that was on super discount sale (retails for $400). “Eighty dollars is too much money and you can buy groceries for the month with that, “she said. Her feet are shod with $500 Tory Burch shoes, in red and black.
But she didn’t know who Tory Burch was when a client asked her where she bought her shoes.

One of the nuns at her former college told me she’s and her family are being legally pursued by someone in Manila for theft. No surprise then she’s telling everyone she’s “going home on vacation”, but I know she’s not going anywhere.

Presently, she’s vampirizing a 70-year-old woman who’s had an angioplasty, pacemaker, titanium pins in her arm from a fall, high blood pressure and early stage dimentia. This Filipina acts helpless and inept and pressures the older woman to act as an assistant. She has her making phonecalls, driving her around, arranging her social activities, translating documents and basically acting as her comfort person.

My battle with the Filipina is over some backstabbing behavior. She told me she needed the job here to help her family, and but after she landed here, she wanted to know how I was qualified to do my job, even though I have three degrees from elite colleges. This was bold even after she was caught on lies she told on her resume talking about editing books and managing media projects. People wept at a play she put on this year, because it was so long and boring, but they had to sit there and watch it. The evidence is on DVD.

Lastly, she claims she’s a virgin, but her Facebook profile photo has her topless with her hair flowing over her naked back. What you say? I am going to find the wire that makes her run and sever it. So help me God, if it’s the last thing I do, she will return to the Philippines on a heap of rotting garbage where she belongs. An Emperor’s New Clothes Style mega-takedown will set this haughty, backstabbing cow straight.

well roca! You don’t have to publish your issues in regards of this particular person. If you have issues with her then let her know. Don’t stab her on the back. And please don’t consult a NUN! In what particular ways he can give you a constructive advice

First of all, Mona Vicente, never tell me what to do. Let me quote you from June 15. You said:

“On my stand point they act that way because they are lacking of moral values. I love Filipino culture and the people itself. However, our values are slowly degrading as years past by. I also notice that some Filipino act unrighteously because they don’t see the result of the action or words they will do. They just deliberately do it and not think about the consequences. ”

Exactly. They don’t think about the consequences. But, I find it strange that you’re interested in defending this backstabber. I came back here hoping that fraudster herself or someone with a similar shady character would try to defend her.

If you are in fact, the awful woman who I’m talking about, it’s too late to destroy your fake Hermes bag, which by the way was PU and NOT leather. If you’re going to buy a fake bag, at least know your materials. HERMES BIRKINS ARE MADE OF LEATHER and not Polyurethane! Make smarter choices. Buy what you can afford.

And you should know that your body is going to be destroyed soon by the massive amounts of pills you are abusing.

I’m quoting Mona again, “some Filipino act unrighteously because they don’t see the result of the action or words they will do. They just deliberately do it and not think about the consequences.”

Here’s another example. You take pills so you can look SKINNY! You’re damaging your kidneys not to mention the stress on your bowels. You’re still young, but when you get older, there will be consequences. Like,one day, you might need to borrow a kidney. Perhaps you should save towards a new one.

And yet, it’s not worth the risk because you’re still a US dress size 6. So only our arms and chicken legs are a size 000. Size 6 is very small, but killing your body with laxatives and starving yourself to get to a size 000 like a 9 year old when you can’t because of your bone structure? Bad idea.

If you’re not the backstabber, but you know who she is, please let her know that NUNs emailed me to tell her private business. I did not ask them, as I was not interested. One of them who she was sucking up to and kissing hands with, asked me to replace her because she told so many lies before even getting the job. I did not believe she was really dishonest so I persuaded my boss to give her the job. She owes her job to me. Therefore, that backstabber has praaaaaperty in Manila because I am a good person and tried to help her when she said she needed work and she was tired of working as an illegal immigrant in a certain country.

Please call my bluff, I will call immigration in my country and revoke her work permit with the pages of evidence in writing from the NUNS, because MY SIGNATURE IS ON HER WORK PERMIT!!!!!!!!

No, I will not do that. She’s pretending she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and telling clients that she went to the equivalent of HARVARD in the Philippines. That lying piece of crap can’t even hold a knife in the proper way, and digs her food like the peasant she is. She also chews with her mouth wide open, sticking out her tongue and makes a noise like this Clak, Clak, Clak! Smak, smak, smak, pta pta! No one likes to sit across from her when she’s eating because it’s loud and you get to see her food in her mouth as it’s being broken down.

Yay! The Filipina nightmare fake bag cockup is out. She is getting fired. A coalition of her colleagues told the principal “She needs to go home to the Philippines, she’s not prepared to work here.” Yay! I hope she reads this and knows that she’s getting fired soon. So much for her praaaaaaperty. Biatch.

I will agree and disagree about the blog that is posted here about Filipinos. First of all, not all Filipinos are like that; there are Filipinos that are genuine honest and they will work hard for their living and they will work hard to study. Some Filipino who acts that way are plainly misguided and have no clue of what life really is. On my stand point they act that way because they are lacking of moral values. I love Filipino culture and the people itself. However, our values are slowly degrading as years past by. I also notice that some Filipino act unrighteously because they don’t see the result of the action or words they will do. They just deliberately do it and not think about the consequences. There are future for Filipinos actually as long as they do what is right and not fall into cracks again. I would honestly let everybody know that there are no perfect culture or/and there are no perfect people. In this world we live in, we do need to strive to do what is right. The only thing we can do is open our mind for possibilities and not to judge people.
The writer of this blog as I see is poorly judging others and not seeing the good of others plainly is prejudice and discriminating. The writer’s main motive is to catch attention of the readers and he did very well. However, don’t expect others to believe you because you wrote a very negative comment about others. You see, the words we say can turn around against you and what you say is who you are. It is easy to judge other and see their mistake. However, the question is have you look at yourself lately in the mirror and see who you are. Did you think about the consequences of the word you written in the internet? You had created a flood of spectators that are real people that have emotions and will create commotions,chaos and comments that people won’t enjoy to hear. And you love to agitate others so you can be notice. Well, you are noticed but don’t expect people to be kind to you.

I haven’t met a Filipina yet that wasn’t looking forward to sleeping with a married man. What’s up with that? And then they try to pretend they are religious and there’s nothing wrong with what they did, but everything is wrong with the betrayed spouse.

Nasty people, hopefully the island will sink or something similar to sodom and gomorrah.

Are you one of those status quo rich bratty spoled Filipino kids. It’s the truth. YOu can’t handle the truth about your own people. Get off your wanna be white ass and start reading all these because it is true…”And it’s rich Filipino’s like you that are keeping the Spanish/Filipino Autocracy alive with its racism, egocentrism…You must be undeducated. Can’t think. You don’t want to see the real issues.

People are not dishonest because they are poor. If that were the case, there would be no rich dishonest politicians. This country suffers from a widespread form of malignant narcissism : the conscious mindset that ” I am better than you and my reality is the only one that counts.”* I am not sure what causes this hysterical “every man for himself” attitude. However, it seems to be what the Philippines is all about. I suspect it has to do with how children are reared. With few limits placed on their behavior; most seem to run wild. This causes a type of social retardation that manifests itself in the behavior of the many “adult children” one comes into contact with in this country.

* term – “malignant narcissism” taken from Huffington Post article by Mark Baer from 09/30/14

the people have low self esteem because of the catholic religion. Cathlocism in the Philippines is not reformed and still practices catholocism and basic religion still back from the day. Mixed with policitial narcissism, it’s a bad mix.

You will notice the differ personalities from Fillipinos born out of the Phil. or naturalized from a young age in other countries than Filipinos that are newbirds. Big difference.

all of this might be happening but why don’t you look over other countries around the world are they any better. sometimes take a better look on good sides not only on those bad things this might be bad things in the philippines but this is not a reason to say PHILIPPINES SUCKS

There’s always a reason behind a thing or two .
The Saudi Filipina sex slaves ? How about thinking of her perspective ?
What if they are suffering from exploitation and have no way to go home ?
The beggars in the street ? What if one of their family has a disease that a lot of money needs to be given ?
As for the thing you said , that you didn’t add “ALL” in your post, well guess what ? You also didn’t add the word “SOME” !
What a hypocrite. If you have the guts to generalize FILIPINOS as scum and our country as a sucker then have responsibility for it , don’t try to deny as if that you didn’t meant to do it because it’s obvious that you deliberately made it to a hateful post.

actually Filipino’s have a nice skin color…Skin color is not the issue…It’s the personality underneath. If you are always what you call, hopefully I spell it right, “Sumangoot”, then your dark skin becomes darker and your face is not bright…

I do Yoga, and the Yoga instructor always say’s to have a cheery face, not scowl. Scowl never helps.Be Positive always.

Philippines sucks at everything. It doesn’t even sponsor any major international sporting events like Golf, Tennis etc…Because Filipinos are keeping their fellow people from being competitive and prosperous…The CRAB EFFECT. That’s why The Philippines is a backward country and cannot ever progress beyond potentional especially if the people keep on picking non-qualified people to run the country. And The Govt. just has to stop letting people leave the country by the hords and find a means to keep Filipinos in the Phil. by creating jobs. PHil has many resources and can put their own people to work. Filipinos are good workers.

But in order for all this to take place I suggest ya’ll read my negatives first before implementing the positives. Once this is understood and every Filipino has in mind that there is work to be done in these areas, I believe, The Philippines has good chance of making the Filipino pride happen. Right now, there is no Filipino pride, no matter how much you love your country.

Respect comes first…then pride. We’ll here’s the breakdown:

Ya’ll, need to stop going to school for the same professions ..Nurses, accountants, engineers…so what? What’s the shame of doing what you want to do. Are your flip parents forcing you into profession you don’t have talent for? Ya’ll just wanna follow the status quo…Jesus said” anyone who is with the world is my enemy”. Anyways, your not going to use it when you go abroad. Ya’ll gonna end up being care givers anyways.

Religion is bad too…Prayers Prayers Prayers. Going to church twice a week but putting nothing in the donation box. God asked you to give a certain amount of your wages in the bible. So what about prayers..Are you practicing the ten commandments? Do Filipinos actually read their bible and practice it? Really…The Philippines a Godly nation with almost 1/2 of the men turning into Gay’s (Backlas)…so embarrassing and shamefull to the world. Backla here, Backla there…What the hell is going on? No wonder many Filipinos are ashamed of their culture. Sometimes I think the Phil would have been better off if it was a Muslim or Buddhist nation. Not Christian because no one is practicing the true Christian values there anyways. What is Catholoscism, or any other religion? So what! Actions speak louder than words. PracticeFairness and respect toward others, not favoritism (towards someone better looking or more wealthy)….Seems like the Philippines is a democratic country but an Oligarchy Pseudo Communism ruled by the wealthy.

What about Money…What’s the most thing Flips complain about that comes out of their mouths…”I don’t have money”..You just being cheap. You can’t even put $5 bucks into the church donation basket. Cheap, Cheap, Cheap…but yet the women will go out and spend their husbands paycheck on a prada, Gucci bag and shoes ( You know what I mean)…So what are you doing with the money? Filipina women are corrupt. Only think about is their ugly face and how they can be white. Besides majority of Filipinas get fat anyways because they eat to much rice and pork…Filipinas are just down right corrupt and will use anyone and anybody just to get where they want to go even if they go after an old squiggley white man to come into a country illegally…TNT…They will go out, divorce their husband, leave their family for a better life..;WOW, that’s loyalty for you. Your such a Godly woman. Your Kids gonna turn out gangsters when they grow up.

They all say their are no jobs in the Phil..but yet everyone has some sort of work…So what are y’all doing with your money. More or less, what are govt. people doing with it? Buying more pork to fill their air filled heads.

Flips, if there is something you can’t afford, don’t buy it or don’t force yourelf. Just say no, if you don’t have. You don’t have to go out of your way to spoil rotten your kids. (let them sleep with you in your bed t’ill their 10 years old etc…you know what I mean) That’s why most Flip kids turn out to be bratty, spoiled, mean, bossy, bullying and demanding when they become adults. Give them chores, and let them work while going to school so they have a sense of direction. And for Pete’s sake, don’t let them live with you t’ill they are past the age of at least 25.

How about those bad traits…Nodding your head instead of saying hello. Stop slapping your food in your mouth when you eat. You know what I mean.

Oh, another thing. TFC…Just horrible. Is there a Dialouge or real acting on these dramas..seems like to much crying yelling…Can you understand what anyone is saying? Especially when the kids talk…Sounds like baby talk or something. What about those variety shows…can someone let someone finish what they are saying before the other speaks…Seems they all interrupt each other while talking. It’s Chaos. Please before you get up and sing, listen to yourself first. You’ll be amazed that you are out of tune. And foremost, stop copying. Write your own material and songs. I’m tired of hearing flips break out with all these wishi washi tunes that sound like carpenters or Disney music.

One request for flips venturing out into other countries: US, Canada or wherever you go or are already. If you think you see a Filipino but not sure or if you know 80% that are Full blooded Fils, please don’t ask, “Are you Filipino” or start speaking tagalog just because you think they look or are Filipino..You sound like uneducated Fools. Some Filipinos that are Americanized or some maybe interbreeded already won’t understand you. Be Smart. Think before you open your mouth.

With all these negatives…I have yet to hear anything positive. Manny Pacquiou is not a positive…especially when you hear his name among the community a billion times. And it’s even more a negative when people like him or uneducated actors/actresses or unqualified people are running for top govt. positions. It doesn’t help. Aren’t you people tired of Chris Aquino and the Marcoses. Come on! Get out of the past. Move on. What about that bald ugly gay guy all the time on TFC talk show host…and when there is a handsome Filipino guy on tv he acts like a mamma’s boy and looks some what feminine all the time…

Come on TFC writers, change up your story line…It’s been the same show for 200 years already. Move on.

What’s up Filipino’s? What’s going on? Think you are all drinking to much beer or getting high on drugs. Or eating to much pork and rice. What’s the deal? Get Real. Get with the Ball. Pull your head out from underneath.

Only one line sentence to describe all this: It’s the old west, with lawless beings riding the range with no govt. installed yet. Lawlessness.

I wish I could print this on 50 billion leaflets and drop it over the Phil from a plane overnight on every Filipino’s doorstep.

The whole TFC needs a facelift…better written shows, better acting. Shows that are rehearsed. Drama’s , oh my gosh, need to be redone…stop with the over domestic violence. This does not help the mass society who watch this crap. And what’s with Gay’s (Backla’s) man, getting bad…Why so many ass Gay’s in Filipino society. Not good. There won’t be a Filipino society if all the men become gay…so bad…Geesh…

You know I agree with the hate comments filipino women are you serious! They just completely quit their studies run away with a man who doesnt know how to provide and drinks alcohol and even sleeping with other women. And then they will have plenty of children like 8 7 6 9 or even 10 even they dont have the money to provide for them and they are going to grow up like their parents because their parents are horrible role models they even abuse their own children and the governmant doesnt even make it a strict rule. And they are controlling their kids lives and even though how strict or disciplinarian you are but you are a horrible example with no discipline your kids will grow up as a delinquent what a shame the population should be control and show some respect to yourself and your own body and so as your life.

Its all that.. Filipinos are transparent not plastic idiots from other countries, Filipinos are innocent that makes other foreigners do what in their shameful mind, Filipinos are very tight in family relationship unlike other countries leave their parents alone even in dying conditions, Filipinos are giver unlike other selfish and greedy they think only for themselves, but careful… this traits makes us Filipinos.

All the comments in this article are so true. After having lived two years in Cebu (with a few short holidays in my home country UK), I have totally revised my outlook on Philippines. It is definitely not “more fun” in Philippines, it is “more shit”.I find that the best way to survive here is to have as little contact as possible with Filipinos, otherwise I would have by now been milked dry of every peso that I have. I live on a guarded subdivision and have a nice house, big garden and my dogs. Luckily I found just a few, a very very few Filipinos whom I can definitely trust. It was not easy to find them, as 99.9% of Filipinos just see westerners as walking atms to be shamefully and shamelessly abused in every possible, conceivable way. What particularly upsets me is the way that Filipinos bad mouth any westerner – I know that because I am fluent in Cebuano (I have a degree in French so it was not difficult to apply my linguistic skills to learning the local language).If I were younger, i would move back to UK, however as a retired expat I have no energy to up sticks again. It is certainly cheaper to live in Cebu than it is (not) to live in UK, that is my main motivation to stay here now. My perception is that Filipinos could all have a decent lifestyle if they stopped their ridiculous custom of venerating their old relatives. In the West, when relatives get old and decrepit and wrinkly, we just shove them in an old people’s home and let them rot there, which thus allows the young to enjoy a decent lifestyle. If Filipinos adopted this aspect of western culture, they would no longer need to target every westerner, who comes to the Philippines, as a potential victim to be scammed in all sorts of devious ways. I am sorry if I do sound so negative in my comments, I am actually by nature a happy and optimistic guy. However, i am not going to let Filipinos ruin my life!,

Filipinos hate foriegners. They only pretend. But you live amoungst them you realize they are not truly happy unless they can see a foriegner suffer some how. You want to put your clothes out to dry? Expect them to cut your stuff or something disgusting. Kill you in a McDo cus you got a cute wife over dumb words. Security Guard fired for coming to work late again unloads his weapon into Brit Boss who personally drove a truck to help Filipinos disaster areas. Then in yahoo all the filipinos defending the security guard cus he did not get respect. They are devils.

They dont know you or anything about you? Dont worry they just make up shit negative to gossip about you. I took a water bottle for a refill do you know how thick the plastic is for those? But when I got back it had a leak on the bottom. Filipino males cant stand anyone or anything that reminds they they are at the fucking bottom…so then they feel better to do fucked up shit to you.

Do not ever try to save money and have a common restroom with a filipino..they think cleaning is show of weakness. Nasty pigs. Blowing nose anywhere and everywhere in the air, wall, hands, and you may be shaking their hand right after or maybe they dig in ass or scratch balls they dont give a damn.

Now just like USA….there are jackass Trump Supporters but if not for some good white people there would be no President Obama. Same for Filipinos.

Got to give a shout out to some of the most unselfish, kind, giving, trusting, loving, fun, hardworking people on the planet when you find the right filipinos.

Yes, that poor unfortunate British bar owner on Malapascua Island, who was shot dead by the security guard whom he sacked, just about sums up the disgraceful attitude of most Filipinos towards westerners. Malapascua is now relegated to the same status as that shithole they call Mindanao: another place to definitely avoid at all costs. Go to Mindanao at your peril, if you like to live dangerously but chances are that you going to be kidnapped, ransomed and then murdered when your government refuses to pay up.
The Philippines is a nation (for want of a better word, since it boasts 80 different languages!) of strange contrasts. Dead relatives are venerated to an extent unheard of in the West, however, life here is considered so cheap that a person can pay someone to kill someone else for a fee ranging from 500 peso for a nobody up to 500,000 peso for a magnate.
Life in Cebu is fine for me so long as I only go outside the subdivision, where I live, as little as possible. It is more economical to live here than in UK, my big house and garden and dogs keep me busy, and I have been extremely lucky to find a very few Filipinos whom I can trust (up to a point).